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BSA Reacts to 'New' BitTorrent
An anonymous reader writes "It seems the Business Software Alliance isn't afraid of the new, tracker-less BitTorrent beta. While it concedes it will have to 'regroup', Tarun Sawney, BSA Asia anti-piracy director, said BitTorrent files could still be identified. 'BSA has traditionally sought the assistance of those hosting the actual pirated files. With or without the tracker sites, someone still hosts the infringing files.'"
Shiver me timbers!We can just bury the torrent files and make a map!BSA's having the Davies now! Arrrgh!
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I haven't even got 4 friends, you insensitive clod.
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Why should they be so scared of it? Is it made to attack them? Is the stated goal of BitTorrent to attack incessently, to give no quarter to the BSA?
Or are they just self-rightious overreacters that think that everything technological that doesn't come from them is a threat to their god-ordained, constitutionally protected business model?
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Someone should file a patent for "a method of identifying a Bittorrent user by means of their IP address".
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You have no idea what you're talking about.
.torrent files contain simply discovery about the seeds instead of about a tracker. The new clients share tracking information.
Right now: if the tracker _or_ the seeds go down then torrent doesn't work. The changes remove a redundant step and do NOT add any additional privacy.
The new
This means the MPAA actually has it easier: they don't have to "take" the tracker, they connect to a torrent like any other downloader and collect all of the addresses of all of the downloaders (as they would be operating as a tracker as well).
And for the record, I would never be caught dead downloading Slackware ISOs as I don't have time to waste. Ubuntu's tracker (on the other hand) went down two days ago.