What does that have to do with anything?

Why does it have to be toxic? Can't we have radioactive nontoxic ooze? Maybe if you irradiate some green playdough and get it wet?

OMG! CHEMICALS!

You know what? Everything - literally everything - is made of chemicals.

What's wrong with that? It's often cheaper (and much less of a bother) to rent.

Water heater died? Well, not really my problem.

Just so you all know, you can just put up the hash of the torrent (and at least one tracker URL) as well. The DHT (distributed hash table) can be used to work the torrent without you needing to grab the torrent file itself from anywhere. This is how magnet links work.

Note you will STILL need trackers unless you (and others) use a client that supports trackerless communications.

You're right, it could be. But do you think they would willingly risk that? Because if it was not a copy of Wikipedia or other such filler, it would hurt.

"Abusing" a law does not mean breaking a law - it means operating within said law but in ways not "intended" when the law was written. Note the quotes, those are important.

While I agree to a point, I have to... point out... another phrase you should probably be up-in-arms about: "You stole my idea!"

Kind of hard to -take- an idea from someone, after all...

Nah, I would have snuck in a death threat if it was.

CFAA: the worst, most overreaching, over-broad, and over-abused set of laws to ever "grace" our legal system.

Well, next to interstate commerce.

Not to say you're wrong, but would it really have been so hard for them to reply asking for details? Simply closing it without even a response is not appropriate, even if it is a useless report.

As someone else said, if it was publicly viewable it was not an appropriate place to put the details. Perhaps he should have offered them (I have reproducibility details, please contact me) but really, the onus for that was on them and not him.

Hell you should at least respond to the reporter! "Can you provide more detail?" and then waiting for said detail is infinity better than ignoring or rejecting it.

To be clear, just because they said it was "1.0" and not alpha, doesn't make it not alpha. It's not feature complete - it's still in alpha state no matter what you choose to call it.

"1.0" means nothing - it's not feature complete, so it's still Alpha.

I don't publicize what I can't finish. I don't take money for a product that I'll never finish.