[FOO] Bittorrent
Bram Cohen who created Bittorrent, an efficient way to distribute large files, is explaining why he thinks that bittorrent won’t fall to lawsuits even though it’s widely used to distribute copyrighted movies and CDs. He says that it’s used too widely by large companies for legitimate reasons. And, he thinks, if they were to sue, they are likely to get a precedent they don’t want. (Here’s a FAQ.)
Someone asks if Bram designed it with legal considerations in mind. He says he was aware of the considerations but he really only considered the technical issues. He says that bittorrent happens to be bad if you want anonymity because, well, there is none.
He hasn’t done strict analysis, but he thinks about one in ten people leave their client running after the download completes, enabling them to continue serving bits to others.
Categories: Uncategorized dw
Thanks for finding this for me, I was just starting to look for a file sharing program and I was afraid I would have to go with Kazaa. BitTorrent looks like a great program.
DailyNotes/2003-10-13
FooCamp: Closed – not allowed to blog? FooCamper ¤Î°ì¿Í Jeremy Zawodny ¤Ë¤è¤ë¤È¡¢ Apparently the first rule of Foo Camp is that you don’t blog about Foo Camp. Too late, I guess. I noticed that Dan linked there too and figured it was okay. Oh well…
Let’s take a moment to reexamine that. What we’ve done here is create two variables. The first variable is in the Heap, and we’re storing data in it. That’s the obvious one. But the second variable is a pointer to the first one, and it exists on the Stack. This variable is the one that’s really called favoriteNumber, and it’s the one we’re working with. It is important to remember that there are now two parts to our simple variable, one of which exists in each world. This kind of division is common is C, but omnipresent in Cocoa. When you start making objects, Cocoa makes them all in the Heap because the Stack isn’t big enough to hold them. In Cocoa, you deal with objects through pointers everywhere and are actually forbidden from dealing with them directly.
BitTorrent P2P Trackers on The Move
BitTorrent-based services are picking up steam this year, thanks to hosted torrent services from a number of vendors and the new eXeem P2P torrent-based application….
Hurricane Electric Adds BitTorrent
Web hosting and colocation provider Hurricane Electric (he.net) announced on Tuesday that it has added a new service feature that enables hosting customers to track and seed files via the BitTorrent (bittorrent.com), file transferring protocol….
BitTorrent Applications to AVIOD
We thought this would be a great article to help newbies avoid dangerous BT clients. In this article we will explain to you why each of the clients is dangerous and why it should be avoided. On the top of…
LokiTorrent Selling to the MPAA
On several BitTorrent and P2P forums we have noticed reports that LokiTorrent actually has been holding out hoping that the MPAA will make an offer to shut them down rather then wage on with the expensive pending lawsuit. We have…
Why Suprnova’s Exeem is so Bad for You
We thought we should make it clear to the public that the new Bittorrent software known as Exeem is really bad for the user. People using the Exeem Bit Torrent client are not only getting the file they want but…
Lokitorrent decides not to lay down in fight vs the MPAA
LokiTorrent, a Web site that tracks and indexes BitTorrent files, says it’s setting up a legal defense fund to fight a lawsuit filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The site’s operators have collected $13,955 of the $30,000…
Examining eXeem… eXeem inside out
On our first visit to the exeem website you are greeted with this notice: “eXeem is a brand new Peer-To-Peer program, which is based on the BitTorrent idea. eXeem eliminates the need for trackers as nodes in the program will…
Exeem is not What Exeem was Suppose to be… or is it?
Exeem may seem like the dream file sharing client, and we agree the concept behind Exeem is a great one but we feel that Suprnova did not deliver on their promise with the release of Exeem. Yes Exeem is still…
Exeem is not What Exeem was Suppose to be… or is it?
Exeem may seem like the dream file sharing client, and we agree the concept behind Exeem is a great one but we feel that Suprnova did not deliver on their promise with the release of Exeem. Yes Exeem is still…
Free the Music
Dozens of French musicians, intellectuals and politicians are criticizing what they call a “repressive” crackdown against those who download music illegally over the Internet. The campaign is believed to be one of the first of its kind in Europe to…
Azureus BitTorrent Client Turning Japanese
The popular BitTorrent Client Azureus not only got a face lift but has also recently become the BitTorrent client of choice in Japan. Staff from our sister site took the time to translate most of the bit torrent client’s documention…
Downloading Hollywood
He’s just a really smart computer geek. Why does this man have the movie industry running scared? Bram Cohen was an unusual kid. While other first-graders were outside playing, he was writing computer code. By junior high, he could solve…
Yotoshi BitTorrent Search Engine
BitTorrent Search Engine makes finding BitTorrent files easier.
Bittorrent Search Engine
Yotoshi BitTorrent Search Engine, find the files you want to download with out the trouble of searching the internet.
BitTorrent Goes Trackerless: Publishing with BitTorrent gets easier!
The Original BitTorrent client is making steps to become trackless. I have republished here the info form the BitTorrent home page. “As part of our ongoing efforts to make publishing files on the Web painless and disruptively cheap, BitTorrent has…
BitTorrent enemies face new problem
Antipiracy operatives have lost an edge over illegal downloaders of movies and software thanks to a new feature in BitTorrent. BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen has eliminated the need for Web site hosting of centralized files, known as “trackers,” in the…
Bittorrent site Elitetorrents Forced to Shut Down
News rumoured ealier that Elitetorrents the popular bittorrent site was hacked earlier today turned out to be totally wrong, later we learned that it was shutdown by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and U.S. Customs (ICE) when they released…
Brave US terrorist hunters end stand off against BitTorrent web site
A massive collection of highly-skilled, dedicated, brave law enforcement officials managed yesterday to shut down a Bittorrent web site alleged to facilitate the illegal trade of the latest Star Wars movie and other content. Yes, it took the FBI and…
BitTorrent Alternative
BT2Net Downloader provides you with a fast and easy access to any of millions of files avaliable in the file sharing network.