Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

BitTorrent May Prove Too Good to Quash

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the playing-a-game-of-whac-a-mole dept.

gollum123 writes "There is an article on washignton post on bittorrent where the author discusses why BitTorrent is here to stay. According to the author it is being increasingly used to distribute software and entertainment legally. It also mentions that in BitTorrent, unlike many other file-sharing programs, legitimate use doesn't amount to a token minority. It's central to this program's existence. It concludes by saying that the MPAA may be able to drive BitTorrent movie downloads into what Green called "the dark corners of the Internet," but this program isn't going to go away. It might, however, be just what movie studios and record labels need to market and distribute their own content efficiently on the Web."

2 of 484 comments (clear)

  1. The funniest thing I've learned... by xintegerx · · Score: 0, Troll

    The funniest thing I've learned from reading slashdot is that innovation never stops. Some bastard that never sleeps will make bittorrent look like a joke within a year from now. We'll all refer to this article a year from now and laugh, lol. I love technology.

    --

    Cover your eyes and click this link!
  2. I think if I had a complaint.... by Rinzai · · Score: 0, Troll
    ...(and I do), it would be that those of us who want to use the Internet for legitimate uses (research, MMORPGs, e-mail, getting news and sports, booking vacations, and other exercises) are going to sacrifice bandwidth to the rest of you asshats (and that was far milder than what I was going to call you) uploading and downloading movies and music that you ought to be paying for.

    Blurring the differences between consumers and providers of data streams may not be the optimum model. Being new isn't the same as being better; just because you can doesn't mean that you should. Has anyone thought about that yet, hmm?

    Seems to me that if we spent as much time in the programming community trying to defeat spammers and malware authors (by which I mean tracking them down, tying them to cement blocks and chucking them into the bay) as we do inventing new ways to distribute porn/movies/music in violation of copyright, that we'd be making some real goddamn progress. But hey, what's a few viruses and security exploits here and there compared to fast downloading free porn, right?

    More power to those ISPs blocking BT, sez I. I got yer paradigm shift right here, buddy. Shift this.

    No, I'm always this way.