abhay 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2005 BitTorrent, Hollywood to Fight PiracyThe American movie industry has achieved a major break-through in its fight against Internet piracy, with the announcement of a collaboration between the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and BitTorrent - a P2P network. So far BitTorrent's technology has been widely used for illegally copying movies and TV shows over the Internet. While downloading a movie, BitTorrent's technology takes parts of the file from different sources simultaneously, thereby facilitating a quicker download of the movie. Under the terms of this agreement, Bram Cohen, founder and CEO, BitTorrent, has agreed to remove links which direct users to pirated content. It is said that the deal might also pave the way for eventual adoption of BitTorrent's technology by movie studios for new, legal services. Dan Glickman, chairman and CEO, MPAA, and Bram Cohen said in a joint statement, that BitTorrent is an extremely efficient publishing tool and search engine, which allows creators and rights-holders to make their content available on the Internet securely. Cohen said that BitTorrent discourages the use of its technology for distributing films without a license to do so, and that the company is pleased to work with the film industry to remove un-authorized content from BitTorrent.com's search engine. The agreement symbolizes a joint initiative, to fight against the continued illegal use of technology. MPAA vehemently opposes piracy in any form, since it hurts the very many individuals employed by the movie industry, including carpenters, lighting and sound technicians, etc. Until now MPAA has sued many Web sites which use BitTorrent technology for illegal movie distribution; and 90 percent of these have shut down. MPAA estimates losses to the movie industry due to piracy at around $3.5 billion last year; analysts express the view that the figure might close at approximately $5.4 billion this year. Gartner has meanwhile said that the BitTorrent-MPAA collaboration might actually give rise to legitimate online networks backed by the movie industry, as a viable alternative to the illegal movie-sharing networks of today. sadhu aur ****an ki jodi! in david dhavans language JODI NO 1 http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/artic...9333&cat_id=547 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anujit 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2005 Yeah sure and people will stop piracy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
linuxguy 0 Report post Posted November 23, 2005 hey! I already stopped using bittorrent! Wow MPAA has worked wonders! I am a NEW guy already! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ashokjp 15 Report post Posted November 24, 2005 Bittorent is not one way of sharing movies. If they dont allow someone else will provide way. no ISSUES Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
linuxguy 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2005 oh there are faster, powerful and secure ways of sharing illegal stuff. The government, the cia, the fbi nobody will be able to decipher what you're transfering. Yeah baby! Crack my 2048bit Public / Private Key combo! They can't until they get quantum computers! I love GNU/Linux! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abhay 0 Report post Posted November 25, 2005 (edited) Kazaa Faced With UltimatumAn Australian court has allegedly ordered Sharman Networks to release a new version of Kazaa by 5 December that includes a keyword filter (non-optional), restricting illegal access and swapping copyright music, and in effect making it impossible to search for music artists on the network. This follows a court ruling in September, that users of peer-to-peer (P2P) service were violating copyright. The ruling said that to avoid shutdown, Kazaa must release a keyword filter system by 5 December - within 10 days. Sources reveal that record companies have a list of 10,000 keywords they want Kazaa to block, but only 3000 have been nominated in the ruling. The court has also instructed Kazaa, to urge its users to obtain the updated release with the blocked search engine on it. Eminem, Kylie Minogue and Madonna are reportedly some of the popular artists, whose songs are to be blocked from being illegally distributed on the P2P network. they are trying to corner us on every possible way point! but looking @ the history i definitely know that we will find a way around http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/artic...9391&cat_id=580 Edited November 25, 2005 by abhay Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
