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Anyone else worried a list of all your torrens is kept in one place and can be tied directly back to you via you Credit card, unless you pay via bitcoins. They might not do anything with this data but when pressed by Mr big Coporation they may have no choice...

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I am. Anyone know details about the founders? Are these guys trying to make a statement, or out to make a buck? In which case, selling the data about its users would be a great monetization model.

Like it matters...

It could have been founded my mother Theresa. It would still be a sweet place for the MAFIAA tugs to drop DMCA requests, or whatever those abuses are called nowadays, by the truckload on their heads.

It would still be a sweet place for the MAFIAA tugs to drop DMCA requests, or whatever those abuses are called nowadays

How are DMCA requests inherently abuses?

Because DMCA makes itself easy to be abused. Off the top of my head, I can remember Microsoft asking Google to take down results to OpenOffice[1]. The first Google result for "DMCA Abuse" reveals this:[2]

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/microsoft_dmca_taked...

[2] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/fifteen-years-dmca-abuse

EDIT: They aren't "inherently" abuses. They are easily used as such.

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