Thanks for the information. That certainly changes the whole picture a bit.

I still find it very strange that it would work. A CPU can have millions of transistors changing state at any given moment, in an asynchronous out-of-order fashion. Add to that all the other components in a PC, bus talk, etc. Even if we got an accurate print of all of the digital chatter happening in a PC, it would be nearly impossible to derive anything specific from that. A power filtering coil is an even much more crude component. You can hear big changes like CPU/GPU frequency stepping, but that's all.

The scanning frequency of a CRT monitor is much higher than what a phone captures. There's no realistic way in which the other end could've recreated the picture.

This possibly can't be real or, these guys are geniuses. Certainly the coil whine will change depending on the load of the machine. However, there's so much stuff happening in a CPU and the system bus that I find it extremely hard to believe that you could listen to any specific numbers. There's also all sorts of power filtering going on and there's decoupling capacitors on the chips.

However, if this is real, then I assume that listening to network traffic would be doable as well.

At least in my perception Microsoft's reputation has increased in past few years. They make stable, fast and secure software. Also, for feedback and support, their developers are more easy to reach than before.

Java bytecode is assembly code of the Java virtual machine.

So if you just want to disable telemetry, in registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection create a 32-bit DWORD called AllowTelemetry and set it to 0. Restart Windows for the changes to take effect.

In a very similar way does TPB cooperate with the trackers, and torrents can be added to those trackers via TPB web interface.

That's extremely clunky, though. If the TPB website search function was not available, the user base would drop dramatically.

Does saying that really change anything? I'm sure that even services like Netflix and Steam use cloud servers to distribute the actual content. The frontend still plays a key part in accessing the content.

Why wouldn't entertainment, software, books, etc. not be goods or service that people are willing to pay for? That you can make unlimited unauthorized copies of them for free does not make their unique value disappear.

Ok. What do you suggest as an alternative? Do you mean that all works should simply be released under public domain?

TPB is a content distributor.

Yeah, it was just an accidental double negation. I meant "not technically legal".