BitTorrent Community Running For Cover?

govatos writes "Bandwidth issues and DOS Attacks brought Bytemonsoon, a popular BitTorrent page down, but now pages are closing for scarier reasons. Torrentse.cx 'recieved a cease and desist letter during the day of Wednesday, July 16, 2003 for copyright infringement. The entire website has been removed and will not return.' Will corporate pressure kill the BitTorrent movement, or will it keep flying from site to site before it settles somewhere 'safe' like Sealand's HavenCo?"

Comments

if you didn't download the hulk by now...

[sweeney37]

Well, on the plus side, the summer movie season is almost over.

Mike

Re:Torrentse.cx

[Anonymous Coward]

Nope, that was goatse.cx

Incidentally, I used the goatse site "as contact me info-page" in a reply to one of the Nigerian scammers. Suffice to say that, he was none to happy, as the following reply shows :

From: xxxxx

Subject: Bastard mother forker

Bastard u fork you bastard mother forker.

Re:All your fancy freedom rhetoric aside

[beacher]

Maybe we should all move to gopher for a while cause the rest of the net has no idea wtf that is.
-B

Re:All your fancy freedom rhetoric aside

[Waffle Iron]

The redhat iso is about 0.00000000001% of all bittorrent traffic.

WWGD? Let's see...

So the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham still stood before the Lord. Then Abraham drew near, and said, "Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt thou then destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? Far be it from thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from thee! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" And the Lord said, "if I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake".

[ At this point, the mortal Abraham, ignoring some thorny philosophy issues, dickers with the omnipotent creator of the universe and gradually sweetens the deal until the Lord concedes... ]

"For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it"

So the standard appears to be 10. If even 10 RedHat ISOs have been transferred, then BitTorrent must be spared.

Re:you are forgetting UseNet

[KiahZero]

Quiet, you fool! You'll ruin it for everyone!