Originally Posted by gideongallery

edonkey is a file identifying schema, torrent is a session idenifying schema.
All the pirate bay has to do is take a book (copyrighted material) put it thru a shredder, put the pieces in a garbage bag. Then they point out torrent breaks the file up in a similar way, spread those incomplete and non functioning pieces all across the network.

then all they have to say is "if you were to extend edonkey ruling to a torrent you would have to make the act of shredding copyright material the criminal act of making it available too ... because the shreding example is an order of magnitude worse since all the non working pieces are stored in the same container."