Re:What happens if... (Score 1, Insightful)

Here we have a file that is 8min long, and another that is 1 hour long (or if there is no "length" category, they will see one is 10mb and one is 700mb) and come to the realization that "hmmm...I was searching for a full lenght concert.

What prevents them from putting more advertisement/garbage after those 8 minutes ? I've heard MP3s with only the refrain playing in a loop for like 4 minutes. ... And correct me if i'm wrong but I think I have seen somewhere that they had found a way to artificially inflate the number of seeds for a torrent by using rogue torrent servers or something like that.

They have to remember, not everyone is a moron ... Now if they want to put the whole concert on the p2p site, but include maybe some advertisements in it like "Pick up Jay-Z's latest album "" now at Tower Records" and then saying that it is a free download, I think you might have something there. But if you give people a teaser when they think they are already breaking the law, but don't care, they are just going to either a) ignore it and download the pirated version, or b) watch it and say, that was great, but I'd really like to see how it ends, better find the full length version"

I think you're right. But they know very much that not everyone is a moron. Think about it, what are they losing in the process ? They're thinking like spammers. If only one pirate chooses to buy the whole concert, they've won. They know they piss you off by making you download an advertisement (and waste your precious bandwidth) and they'll keep pissing you off until you've had enough and either
a) you buy their product or
b) you stop downloading illegal stuff

They have learned well. You have to agree that it's clever ! They're using the pirates own weapon against them.