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Re: Hollywood and BitTorrent Reach Agreement

Paul Vader (pv+usenet@pobox.com)
Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:00:41 -0000

Gary Gentile <ap@telecom-digest.org> writes:

> In a deal aimed at reducing illegal Internet traffic in pirated films,
> Hollywood reached an agreement Tuesday with the creator of the popular
> file-sharing software BitTorrent.

And Bram is laughing behind their back. What a bunch of nitwits.

> The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent
> his Web site, bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular
> movies, effectively frustrating people who search for illegal copies of
> films.

Ineffectively, they mean! What gave them the idea that bittorrent.com
was the only place to get torrent files, or even a major place? *

* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.

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