They bought it, they can bury it. Just because someone is trashing something doesn't give you the right to steal it from them claiming you'll use it better.

"Define monitoring people."
In this sense I'd say monitoring is then tracking the activity of that IP address unrelated to the specific torrent that was just then downloaded.

You must make a distinction, there are different ways one can torrent things. Some ways are less secure that others... if you say just want to use some public tracker from your home pc, then sure, that's not very safe. If you want to say... have a seedbox hosted in a non MPAA, RIAA friendly country and pay that account with untraceable bitcoins using a fake email account you set up over a VPN and then only use private trackers and use SFTP to bring everything back to your home machine I'd say you're safer than even doing what you're suggesting as even your friend can rat you out or your wifi could be monitored.

It might be easy but it's going to make you worry the next day and might come back to haunt you later.

The list of top 100 would of course change over time.. the torrents are monitored not the people downloading. Likely they're recorded. Monitoring people is a whole other story.

What is the point of your post. Article title states: Most Torrent Downloaders Are Monitored, Study Finds

"we are working together with Sony to try to bring you this content."

It's obvious that the person writing the summary hasn't even read the post from Bethesda, thanks for your useless commentary.

99% of people are idiots.

Guns for show, knives for a pro.

I think you're wrong about most people doing this to avoid gun laws. Most people wanting to avoid gun laws don't have 1000's of dollars to spare and the time to spend on this, it's much easier to attain a firearm through other means.

I think a lot of people are interested in this because it's potentially taking power away from government regulation and handing it back to the people.

It's a bummer I was really hoping the DIY railgun tech was going to take off.

Or perhaps when a company like Sony comes and forces google to remove an app from their store because it will compete with a future product they're planning on launching.

Then continue to clone over and over again until random flaws in the cloning process eventually create a cloning machine without the one-time use restriction, or just let it continue on until it gains self awareness, creates some killer robots and wipes out you and the rest of humanity out of some altruistic motive to save the earth.

Sounds like a nice idea but I think you'll find along with that fancy video card you'll also need an additional power supply and still be limited to your laptop screen?

I don't see that happening, the price of this "dock" which holds a video card, power supply and ports is going to pricey. External video card would also require some very nice connector, thunderbolt or something like that.. and still quite a distance to travel from the cpu and system ram.

" Desktops are dying anyway, almost everyone has moved to laptops."

as a gamer I went this route.. once.. bought a pricey gaming laptop... too hot, always had to change thermal paste, didn't keep up well with the games. I gave up and built out a new desktop.

As long as thermal issues remain in computing and vendors refuse to standardize and allow upgrading of laptop components desktops sized computing will not die.