TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Hollywood and BitTorrent Reach Agreement

Re: Hollywood and BitTorrent Reach Agreement

Seth Breidbart (sethb@panix.com)
Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:30:56 UTC

In article <telecom24.531.12@telecom-digest.org>,
Paul Vader <pv+usenet@pobox.com> wrote:

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

>> 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? *

At least they don't require bittorrent to install a rootkit on every
machine that uses it. (Not that they could, but they'd probably try
if it hadn't already proven too embarrassing.)

Seth

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