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YTS Claim Makes It More Obvious that Pirates Should Be Vigilant that Pirates should be Vigilant. Torrent site owner may be handing information on some of its users to movie companies. Torrents are public and any rightsholder can monitor them before filing a lawsuit for damages. The idea, if people even consider it, is that ‘pirate’ sites can’t give up their information. That is a dangerous assumption. When faced with multiple six-digit claims for damages, no one should expect anything different.
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