> New releases of something that just came out tend to suffer from this, though. Sometimes the counterfeits reach escape velocity - the rate of people joining in downloading the counterfeit exceed the rate of people realizing and stopping, thus giving the illusion of a legit torrent.
It's possible. I never follow new releases. But back in the ed2k days, I'd say about half of just about any file you cared you search for was fake, regardless of age.
You are what’s called, an edge case. A statistical anomaly. While that is great, you are far from the norm and not the target of this product (or even this particular thread :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779341
> New releases of something that just came out tend to suffer from this, though. Sometimes the counterfeits reach escape velocity - the rate of people joining in downloading the counterfeit exceed the rate of people realizing and stopping, thus giving the illusion of a legit torrent.