This week has been an absolute low point in Torrent history. It seems that some malicious and powerful people (we’ll just call them “super villains”) used BitTorrent for the powers of evil instead of good, and Stan Lee’s own Marvel Comics was the first to report on this situation.

Klaw is back.

That’s right, in Fantastic Four #549, Black Panther’s arch-nemesis Klaw (a being made of sound that can convert sound-waves into physical matter) was cloned by fellow not-so-nice guy The Wizard from an audio sample obtained via BitTorrent.

The ramifications of this is amazing to me and brings up 1,001 questions. Who had that piece of Klaw? Where did they get it? Why the hell were they uploading it on BitTorrent to begin with? Does this mean that there are potentially hundreds of people that could be downloading and cloning their own copy of Klaw? Are we on the verge of a Klaw epidemic? Did the Wizard use a private or public tracker? Maybe BitTorrent 6.0 Beta?

And what about other sound based supers out there? Could we copy Banshee and Siren’s voices capable of leveling buildings? Could the next Cold War begin with governments trying to download Blackbolt’s whispers in FLAC? Do we have to worry about some guy in Texas going all Dr. Decibel/Waco on us just because he’s got a fast internet connection? And let’s not even get into the morality issue of cloning.

This act of, dare I say terrorism, will set the Torrent community back 10 years. It’s hard enough trying to be taken seriously without having super villains running around with bowling balls on their heads cloning serial killers that have satellite dishes for hands. It’s a weird world.

Tune in for updates on this horrific situation and be sure to pick up your own copy of FF #549!

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