Quote:I _Feel_ that this is not a good method of gaining an overall picture of what TPB is doing, datawise. I would instead reccomend gathering snapshots of trackers, and going statistical on data transferred...
It depends on what you want to measure say you have 2 torrents A and B, A is the latest X-Men Movie and B is a Linux Distro. Say A has 100 downloaders and 3 seeds and B has 2 downloaders and 10 seeds.
Method 1) In the study quoted they would call that 50% legal torrents.
Method 2) You seem to want to give A more weight because it has more peers (tracker transfer data on peers so more peers means that the trackers recieve and send more data).
Method 3) I think what you actually mean (this is hard on web forums. Why can't everyone talk in assembly? It would be much less ambiguous. Of course it would be a pain to have to be so precise.) is that you want A to count more because it is downloaded more.
Method 4) weigh each torrent by the number of seeds (how? Average over the lifespan of the torrent? Snapshot?) which makes sense in some legal systems where the downloading is not illegal but the uploading is.
Method 5) Some complicated forumla involving datatransfer, number of peers, number of seeds, etc to weight the value of a torrent. Tricky to get people to agree it is a valid messurment.
Some would argue that the proper way to measure it would be Method 1 since that is all TPB has control over, they can't control the popularity of the torrents. Method 1 also has the advantage of being fairly static whereas the others are in constant flux meaning it would be hard to get reliable data.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."