Legal Torrent Sites Help Legitimize BitTorrent

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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oh great... "lefty" politics ahead...

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"We want to be a resource for politically left people and community-based organizations," said Jeff Reifman, a former Microsoft manager who works at Groundspring.org, a Web-tools builder for nonprofits. He helped put together CommonBits.

Any legal or fair-use content, including Seattle-based events and gatherings, is appropriate for CommonBits, Reifman says. But it needs to fit CommonBits' philosophy and will be screened to meet the service's goals.

so any legal material that doesn't fit their leftist worldview will be censored... how nice...

What I want to see is for this to have no biases except possibly to comply with hate crime legislation and to suitably screen access to some items for over 18s only. I want no political slanting of what gets in, I would far rather it be noted for the fairness of their coverage.