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MPAA Chafes at Bit(Torrent)
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From IMDB.com
A new technology called BitTorrent, which can download a pirated feature film in DVD quality in less time than it takes to watch, is posing a new threat to movie studios. According to Mercury News, the technology, which requires several "owners" of a particular film to "share" individual parts of it with others, is particularly tough for the studios to battle since the sharing network shuts down after the film is downloaded. The BitTorrent software was created by Bram Cohen of Seattle, who receives no money from sales of pirated films but does welcome "donations" from visitors to his website. However, that may not insulate him from a lawsuit by the MPAA. John G. Malcolm, director of worldwide anti-piracy for the Motion Picture Association of America, told Mercury News: "BitTorrent and others who are complicit in copyright theft should take little comfort from their temporary celebrity status."
Oh noooos! What is next, sue Apple because a Mac was used for illegal activities? 
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no I think downloaders are safe, cause the bittorrent does shut down after download is finished, but dont let the fbi come into your house, there like Vampires, only you have invite vampires in, the fbi can do whatever the hell they want... 
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Originally posted by SamuraiDL:
no I think downloaders are safe, cause the bittorrent does shut down after download is finished, but dont let the fbi come into your house, there like Vampires, only you have invite vampires in, the fbi can do whatever the hell they want...
It is easy to get the IP of all the people downloading from you. (netstat in the terminal) But the cat is out of the bag. I have a server that only friends can use. I doubt if they could find it.
Without BitTorrent it is hard to get my legal Linux distros. 
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To the MPAA,
Get a clue.
From Everyone.
Why must they sue everyone?
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Unfortunately for the MPAA, BitTorrent has a long history of legal use as well as use in piracy. Several companies use it as an official distribution method. This pretty much decimates any case they have.
But since when is anyone responsible for someone's actions, other than the one doing the acting? This is, perhaps, the dark side of the entitlement society in which we live; in limiting the depths to which a person can sink, we also inherently limit the heights to which a person can rise. You can't have one without the other, because there is no "other"; they are one and the same. That's just plain not a price worth paying.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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oh no, what do you think "donations" means? I thought he was just getting donations, no "donations"
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I got a letter from charter last night about my bitTorrent use. Finally caught up to me.
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CAPITALISTS ARE NOT MAKING ENOUGH MONEY.
MORE MONEY IS WHAT THEY NEED.
THE PROLETARIANS MUST PAY OR BE SUED.
It's cool how the internet renders a part of capitalism obsolete.
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It amazes me how, with my ISP, I uploaded 10gig (I left the eMac up the stairs open for a bit too long) at steady 80k/s and dled 700MB...
and I do that like every day...
who CARES? not my ISP.
Bell, you KICK ass. Don't change.
Time to check what's up on ******** guys.
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Originally posted by ambush:
It amazes me how, with my ISP, I uploaded 10gig (I left the eMac up the stairs open for a bit too long) at steady 80k/s and dled 700MB...
and I do that like every day...
who CARES? not my ISP.
Bell, you KICK ass. Don't change.
Time to check what's up on ******** guys.
Doesn't bell have a 5gig cap per month? I was a sympatico user in montreal and then I got an email one day saying that they were changing the usage policy from unlimited to 5gig for each up and down.
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Blizzard using Bit Torrent technology for WoW downloads.
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