Sought for MGM v. Grokster: Non-Infringing P2P Use

Posted by timothy on Monday December 20, 2004 @03:05AM from the that-lessig-fellow-might-have-some-words dept.

linuxizer writes "Since my last Slashdot entry, I've been discussing various copyright issues with the ever-interesting Peter Fader. Out of those conversations came sniu.info, an attempt to document the various forms of substantial, non-infringing use over peer-to-peer networks before MGM v Grokster goes to the Supreme Court. So far I have about 50 entries, but more suggestions would be much appreciated. Some fellow /. readers might also be interested in my fairly regular posts on copyright/IP issues, which are mostly links to interesting articles with occasional commentary."

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Blizzard uses P2P by Zeddicus_Z · 2004-12-20 03:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

World of Warcraft distributes patches via a customised BitTorrent client.

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linux ISOs by drwho · 2004-12-20 03:21 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's not too difficult to find people using bittorrent to distribute linux ISOs these days. I just grabbed a set of Debian 3.1. Works like a charm!

In fact, nothing works better. This is so much a viable use, that I don't really believe any more proof of bittorrent is necessary. But hey, the more the better I suppose.