Porn Picks Bone With Torrents

It's hard to have sympathy for a dirty, exploitative medium when the producers of it cry foul over piracy – after all dirty is as dirty does, and karma can be your friend or your enemy. But at the same time, copyrights are copyrights and are intended to protect the truly artful from thieves as much as they protect the scummy. Porn Picks Bone With Torrents20 percent of the content available is legitimately acquired.

Again, it's hard to have a pity party…ask the peddler how large a cut he gave the starlet he exploited, and then about what's fair and you probably won't like the answer. It's a matter of what's legal, what's business, and supply and demand.

Regardless, copyright law makes it illegal and they have certain rights, and they're forming coalitions to fight torrents, where the bulk of their content is pirated. But instead of trying to take down the torrent sites directly, the leading solution is to target the backbone providers like AT&T.

And this is where it gets really problematic. This is where you get ISPs deciding directly what content goes through and what doesn't at the request of interested parties, without any type of due process, because, as it is, there is no such thing as Net Neutrality protection.

And of course the excuse, especially in light of the DOJ's recent (confusingly unnecessary) opinion on the matter, will be made in the name of something more heinous, like child pornography.