<story><title>Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated to stealing magic tricks</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.de/inside-art-of-misdirection-ultra-exclusive-private-torrent-tracker-magical-pirates-invites-2016-11</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>If I want to know how a classic trick is done I&amp;#x27;ll look at the Wikipedia page. It often won&amp;#x27;t reveal the secret directly, but if you check the page history you&amp;#x27;ll find an edit war between magicians which exposes exactly how it works.</text></comment>
<story><title>Magicians fought over an ultra-secret tracker dedicated to stealing magic tricks</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.de/inside-art-of-misdirection-ultra-exclusive-private-torrent-tracker-magical-pirates-invites-2016-11</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TillE</author><text>&amp;gt; The site is a trading post for stolen, pirated and unlawfully copied tricks, which are covered by copyright, trademarks or other intellectual property in much the same way that TV shows and films are.&lt;p&gt;A video or whatever may be copyrighted, but it&amp;#x27;s not really possible to protect a &amp;quot;trick&amp;quot;. You can patent a process, but of course this reveals it to the public.&lt;p&gt;Most of the described contents of the tracker are commercially released products. That&amp;#x27;s really not &amp;quot;stealing tricks&amp;quot; in any way.</text></comment>