Re:oblig (Score 1)

consider a "torrent" which is supposedly a movie. If you only seed blank frames (but claim you have the whole movie), then you aren't violating anyone's copyright (since every movie has blank frames)

Yes. Just create clients that work this way and slowly dissolve an otherwise perfectly working distribution channel. Yay for the *AAs, i guess. Now just to find a different way of hauling around gigs of linux iso-s.

(Of course, all this assuming that such peers wouldn't be discovered and banned on per-client basis via CRC checks. On the other hand, there IS at least one bittorrent client which doesn't upload anything instead of sending garbage out there, created as a proof-of-concept describing the vulnerability of current bittorrent protocol (that is, at least officially)).

Oh, and sorry for my english.