[ProtectOurFreedom]

If you are so inclined, this new technology will make it quicker to steal others' intellectual property. It sounds like it's going to be pretty hard to stamp this one out.

[JenB]

Anime-fix bump... isn't bittorrent great?

[Revolting cat!]

If you are so inclined, this new technology will make it quicker to steal others' intellectual property.

Like stealing the San Jose Mercury News' intellectual property by posting this article here? Pity. Shame.

[facedown]

Torrent Storm

[wesdale]

I'm inclined and it will be impossible to stop this. Bittorrent is decentralized and there's nobody for the industry or lawmakers to focus on.

[Smogger]

intellectual property...

*yawn*

now that we have copyright in perpetuity... i have little respect for this concept.

they will never be able to stomp out file sharing... NEVER... they have been trying to police how geeks string 0's and 1's together for over 20 years now with NO SUCCESS.

better to dump their archaic distribution models.

[1stFreedom]

For those who think bittorrent isn't traceable, think again...

It can be easily traced, contrary to popular belief.

[1stFreedom]

From Zeropaid.com concerning Bittorrent:

My BT days are over

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"Despite my best judgement I have been using BT. But today I recieved the dreaded letter from my ISP (Charter). Universal studios notified them and provided me with the time and date I was downloading said file and what program I was using. I only have used suprnova and not even used it that much. Also the movie in question was not even one I would think they would be even worried about. I should have listened to my own advice, but temptation is a bitch. Goodbye BT!"

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=22750&page=1&pp=15

[ctdonath2]

There are also absolutely legit uses of such software. When major/large software releases swamp servers, BitTorrent lets lots of people get legitimately free gargantuan files quickly. New versions of Linux, free/public-domain movies, large games, etc. all use tremendous resources to distribute both in sheer size (hundreds of MB or more) and demand (thousands of simultanious downloads), but that is trivialized by having the recipients "pay" by loaning their own computers as interm servers.

[ARCADIA]

this new technology will make it quicker to steal others' intellectual property.

Intellectual property rights are vastly overdone. They could simply produce the kind of quality products that use to draw people into the movie theaters and make the money there. Perhaps if these dinosaurs cannot adopt to the reality they should fail. I am sure that there will be plenty of other creative talent willing to step into the void. The king should be forced to use his land productively, it is not enough to just sit back, capture a resource, and exhort a rent.

[B Knotts]

It is also good for distributing legitimate free software, like Knoppix.

And it is still traceable...it's just more of a pain to do so.

The only software designed to be untraceable is FreeNet, but it's nowhere near ready for prime time, and therefore not something that is widely used.

[meadsjn]

This is the new business model in this brave new era of outsourcing. Entertainers and their producers are no more worthy of surviving than engineers, programmers, sys admins, etc.

Sing it once, get paid once. And the price better go down with each performance.

[zeugma]

I had trouble getting bittorrent to work for me the last time I tried to install it so I could download a copy of Knoppix before they moved the ISO out to the official mirrors. I'll be sure and have it working next time so I won't have to wait for the mirrors to recover from the overload they experience with new releases. Bittorrent is the official and reccommended way of downloading Knoppix, so it's not only good for piracy.

[Centurion2000]

bump

[TheBattman]

"New technology"? IT's been around AT LEAST a year that I know of.

Bit Torrent use can be effective, but it just as often ends with a duead and unusable file. This sort of "swarming" file sharing is going to be VERY difficult for the media companies to stamp out.

[Dont Mention the War]

BitTorrent? They ought to callit BitTrickle. Most of the time it's agonizingly slow.

[Revolting cat!]

Happy downloading, y'all! Just beware of the pontificating Church ladies on their High Horses around here!

[BushisTheMan]

Does this mean Hollywood and all the incompetent actors/actresses will no longer have out-of-this-world salaries for the biggest bunch of loser movies ever put out?

Good.

[Larry381]

sad to say most of the crap out of Hollywood today isn't even worth stealing. The only good dvds worth stealing are the older movies produced years ago before the current mob of hollywood counterfeit-stars and pathologically obsolescent pc directors crawled onto the scene.

[Larry381]

Actually what hollywood really should be afraid of (beside a Bush victory) is the mass renting of dvds which are very easily copied, usually in less than 10 minutes.

[Ciexyz]

bump with no comment