Tuesday, December 14, 2004
MPAA v. BitTorrent trackers
WIRED is reporting that the MPAA has filed suit against several BitTorrent tracker server owners in an effort to stop the trading of copyrighted material.
Although tracker servers don't host any illegal or pirated files, they do point users to the location of the those files. The MPAA claims that pointing to the files is a enough to be deemed illegal.
Following that kind of logic in the real world would mean that you could be arrested for pointing to a prostitute and yelling, "Hey, there is a prostitute over there!" Right? I mean, prostitution is illegal and I just pointed at a prostitute.
With a recent study estimating that BitTorrent accounts for 35% (come on, can that be right?!) of all internet traffic, the outcome of this case should be of interest to a lot of people.
In addition to outlining the MPAA's complaint, the article provides a great overview to how BitTorrent works.
WIRED is reporting that the MPAA has filed suit against several BitTorrent tracker server owners in an effort to stop the trading of copyrighted material.
Although tracker servers don't host any illegal or pirated files, they do point users to the location of the those files. The MPAA claims that pointing to the files is a enough to be deemed illegal.
Following that kind of logic in the real world would mean that you could be arrested for pointing to a prostitute and yelling, "Hey, there is a prostitute over there!" Right? I mean, prostitution is illegal and I just pointed at a prostitute.
With a recent study estimating that BitTorrent accounts for 35% (come on, can that be right?!) of all internet traffic, the outcome of this case should be of interest to a lot of people.
In addition to outlining the MPAA's complaint, the article provides a great overview to how BitTorrent works.
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