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Legal Torrent Sites Help Legitimize BitTorrent

Posted by timothy on from the salvation-for-the-buzzword-deficient dept.

Jeff writes "In today's Seattle Times, technology columnist Paul Andrews highlights how legal torrent sites such as CommonBits may lead to wider adoption and acceptance of BitTorrent. With reports that illegal torrent usage may be more than a third of Internet traffic, sites like LegalTorrents, Torrentocracy, Prodigem and bt.etree may offer a compelling defense to future legal attacks while simultaneously promoting fair use rights. Andrews goes on to argue that the future of television may be no further away than integration of podcasting, RSS, tagging and BlogTorrent."

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  1. Defense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    With reports that illegal torrent usage may be more than a third of Internet traffic, sites like LegalTorrents, Torrentocracy, Prodigem and bt.etree may offer a compelling defense to future legal attacks

    MPAA: I'm suing you for you website with links to Torrents of all our movies.

    Pirate: Look, that other site over there offers torrents of non-infringing material.

    Court: Because other people are using torrents lawfully, this guy can pirate all he likes. Case dismissed.

  2. got a torrent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    they got slashdotted already :/ anybody got a torrent?

  3. Re:BitTorrent 4.0.0 Released by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 4, Funny

    Additional features in the slashdot edition:

    Increase penis size by at least 20%

    Makes you irresistable to the opposite sex*

    Automatic emailing to RIAA/MPAA/CIA and FBI when illegal content seeded.

    Dynamic updating of your DNS, making your banking and ebay experience better.

    Full software testing

    Dupe removal

    *No guarantee they will be the same species however.

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
  4. Re:Lefty-bashing by Overzeetop · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm guessing this guy (GP) watches only FOX. He's knows it's unbiased, because they tell him it is :-)

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    Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
  5. News Flash by ZehFernando · · Score: 2, Funny

    In a shocker announcement, Common Sense LLC announced today that HTTP, FTP, TELNET, email and other protocols can also be used for piracy.

    MPAA has already announced it plans to sue the creators and maintainers of such protocols and its clients. Other associations are expected to follow suit shortly.

  6. Re:BitTorrent 4.0.0 Released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does it still spew popups of that ugly fucker begging for money?