Comments on: BitTorrent enemies face new hurdle

Antipiracy operatives lose an edge over illegal downloaders of movies and software thanks to a new feature in BitTorrent.

[Jonathan]

HA HA!

n/t

[bobby_brady]

Good move

But we all know the RIAA and MPAA are paying off the crooks in DC to get more laws changed.

[ivand67]

They've been trying for a while now

They've been trying to change the laws for quite some time, and have failed.

Grokster will win. BitTorrent will work beautifully decentralized. File sharers will win. MPAA + company will lose. The Internet will not be censored or controlled.

Their only hope is to drastically lower the prices on everything, completely get rid of DRM, setting up an iTunes of movies for a dollar per movie or $10/month for unlimited TV, music, movies, MP3s, legally.

But none of that will never happen, of course.

+1 for the darkside

When are all the people going to understand that resistance is futile. The future of mankind will evolve into an electronic being. FACE IT. It's the next step of evolution. With all the people that tune into the internet and lose themselves in online games and research. There will be a point where our minds can control the system and then they will become the system. So I say "F*CK YOU" to the MPAA and RIAA, and anyone else that doesn't understand that "All your electronic data is belong to us"! Stop being selfish with OUR data. What these corp execs and politicians don't understand is that nothing belongs to them. We as human beings will never accomplish anything if we sit and squabble about who owns what. We are the creators of our own destiny, and it cannot be bought or sold. I'll keep my money thank you and use it to pay off my college bill (something worth paying for in a world controlled by capitalism). C U N cyb3rsp4ce n00bs!

[Mario Nogueira]

Is this guy for real?

You have just embarassed yourself... good for you that you didn't give your name.

Interesting..

You have a very realistic outlook, with a little bit of nihilistic attitude. Were we seperated at birth?

Ever hear the phrase "Ahead of his time"?

Most just call me a nutjob!

It makes me sad.


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It all makes sense to me.

[City_Of_LA]

LOL at MPAA

To celebrate, I'll be going on a 30 day downloading spree and introduce 10 people per month to the joys of Azureus.

Read this very carefully Mr. Dan Glickman....

YOU....WILL....NEVER....WIN.

later.

[Sam Papelbon]

hollywood knows how to win

they are countering the growing use of file sharing by releasing increasingly retarded movies.

scorched earth policy.

pretty soon there will be nothing worth pirating. only then will the MPAA have won.

It helps, but is still moot...

This shift in how BitT works is great and everything but still doesn't go far enough. It won't have gone far enough until the creators of these problems fix it so that there is no way for anyone to trace how is downloading and who is uploading. Until this happens you are playing legal Russian Roulette with your life and the financial future of your family and loved ones.

The problem is should P2P software move to the point that who is doing what is untracable you can bet the goverment and courts will step it to outlaw the software and technology.

So as I see it there is no way to win this. For either side.

Robert

[Mario Nogueira]

Snocap

Well, it seems to me that something like Snocap (www.snocap.com) can help... it traces and charge pennies for whatever copyrighted file you are swapping.

Imagin the economies of scale... it took iTunes one entire year to sell a million downloads, which is probably worth one or to days of p2p traffic.

There's nothing wrong with copyright, the problem is with the abuses from DRM technologies. Some balance will have to be reached anytime soon.