Guest c4evap Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Picked up from BBC News/World Edition The movie industry and the man behind BitTorrent have signed a deal they hope will reduce the number of pirated films shared on the downloading network. The deal covers films found via the bittorrent.com website run by Bram Cohen - creator of the download system. It means bittorrent.com must remove any links to pirated films made by seven Hollywood movie studios. As it only covers the bittorrent.com website it is unclear what overall effect it will have on net piracy. What is not known is how many of the 45 million users of BitTorrent search for files to download via the BitTorrent.com site. Many other websites let people search for so-called "torrents" or simply list the most popular ones for people to download and these sites could be unaffected by the deal. The deal between the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and BitTorrent is the latest in a long line of moves to limit the illegal sharing of films via the net. BitTorrent has become a widely used way for many to get hold of very large video files as the technology is very efficient at splitting up and sharing data. Use of the system has proved to be a thorn in the side of the MPAA as it can make it hard to work out who is behind illegal movie sharing. Under the deal Mr Cohen must stop people being able to find pirated films when they search via the bittorrent.com website. He has also agreed to speed up the issuing of notices telling people to stop illegal sharing. "BitTorrent Inc. discourages the use of its technology for distributing films without a license to do so," said Mr Cohen in a statement. Mr Cohen has reportedly raised $8.75m in financing to turn the BitTorrent technology and the associated website into a commercial download service. The deal is widely seen as giving that nascent service official approval. c4 B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annika Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 I guess money wins everytime... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 We are the humans. We gather files to improve our lifes. Resistance is futile. Has a force of nature ever been stopped? (eat, sleep, sex, etc) :thinking: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philly Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Bram Cohen sezs he "discourages" the use of bit torrents for the use of illegal file sharing.....he discourages but doesnt flat out say "Don't use the program cause i dont wanna get sued!"...hes pretty much just covering his own @$$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 The Tighter they squeeze their power of control, the more ppl will slip put of there hands. there are plently of other web sites out there other than Bitt.com. and thoes sites havnet sucumed to the evil MPAA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 We are the humans. We gather files to improve our lifes. Resistance is futile. Has a force of nature ever been stopped? (eat, sleep, sex, etc) :thinking: That's quite true... he he he... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggie Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 We are the humans. We gather files to improve our lifes. Resistance is futile. Has a force of nature ever been stopped? (eat, sleep, sex, etc) :thinking: That's quite true... he he he... :) I don't know have you or are you married to a pregnant woman. That can sure stop sex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S0V13T Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 I honestelly didn't even know that bittorrent.com even had torrents on the server. Has anyone here ever downloaded a torrent from that site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 I don't know have you or are you married to a pregnant woman. That can sure stop sex. [OT=jokes] Sex, where some men haven't gone before. :cyclops: Sex is like a game with different levels. I'm guessing Level 1? (Hand to hand combat) :cyclops: [/OT] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 maybe the time came to sell out. has he been offered money by the studios for doin all this? at the end of the day the software is out there so people will use it or adapt one way or another. if i was bram id take a nice fat paycheck and settle down knbowing that i had subverted the world in my own little way and then got the people id beed screwing to pay me to stop. a true pirate:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbb Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 The internet is being turned into a giant commercial center, a shopping mall. Our site must resist this trend. Many sites are now charging for things that were completely normal just a while ago. The Pirate Bay is also down. I find that our site will become one of the last decent torrent sites out there. If anyone has the Star Wars trilogy (ISOMIX) by dingokidneys available I would be very grateful if it were re-uploaded to the site. It has all three Star Wars movies (pre special edition without the Jedi rocks scene or new special effects) in 700mb format and looks great. In the old version of the movies no jedi rocks scene and Han shoots first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meateater Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 The Pirate Bay is also down. Really? I was just there and it seems up. Maybe it was just down for a couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8ullfrog Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 This is oldhat for the blockage of software distribution. 1. Programmer make software which makes copying "X" type file easier. 2. company who sells product "X" sues Programmer and is awarded rights to the file copying software. 3. company sues any website that hosts the copying program. They can afford to buy and sell cohen, the question is what will actually happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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