Bram Cohen to Release BitTorrent Search Engine

AI Playground writes "Within two weeks, a BitTorrent search engine will be available at BitTorrent.com. From the Wired News article: 'Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen's popular BitTorrent protocol.'"

Comments

Re:Google isn't enough!

[BoldAC]

TorrentSpy Rocks

Already been done?

[TubeSteak]

First, a printer friendly page

Second: Torrentsearch.us
this site already indexes torrents and even has an option to search multiple torrent sites @ once. (beware the enormous java ad)

torrent searches

[Anonymous Coward]

Right now I use ISOhunt and Bitoogle.

Any other good ones out there?

It's already live!

[Deaper]

You can wait two weeks for them to link it on the homepage or you can search now at search.bittorrent.com

Re:Google isn't enough!

[Nahor]

Better search with filetype:torrent

Actually...

[Spy der Mann]

according to the wired article, the search engine will allow "RIAA and friends" to target the uploaders directly and sue them.

So the search engine will actually become a benefit for the RIAA. Which I'm perfectly OK with, since Cohen never intended BT to be a pirate tool.

Bitoogle

[Teja]

While you can just access it already by going here you can, in the meantime, use Bitoogle it has been around for quite some time now. It is okay I suppose, personally I just prefer Torrentspy. It has a much larger contribution and a large userbase.

Re:Google isn't enough!

[SCVirus]

yep and then theres http://packetnews.com/, http://torrentsearch.us/ http://isohunt.com/ httP;//yotoshi.com http://torrentsearcher.filesharingplace.com/ and many many more

Re:Kevin Poulsen of the Watchman book?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. He's been a writer for Security Focus for quite a while.

Re:Google isn't enough!

[SoLO]

This link shows all the torrents google has indexed.

Re:RIAA to release lawsuit in two weeks.

[cpt kangarooski]

Well, what you're thinking of is likely section 105. It only applies to the federal government, however, and doesn't permit the government to allow other entities to claim a copyright on the government work.

Related to that are various agency rules that apply for works which aren't government works, but which do involve government funding. And also the due process guarantees of the 14th amendment and various state laws could preclude copyrights on various forms of state laws, rules, caselaw, etc.

There's also 102(b) of course, for material that's simply outside of the scope of copyright. 102(a) has to be satisfied in order to obtain a copyright. And 103(a), for unlawfully used material in making derivatives. 103 also prevents derivative works with too little additional original matter from being copyrightable. The utility doctrine prevents the functional parts of pictoral, graphic, and sculptural works from being copyrightable, which might include the entire thing if they're inseperable. The merger doctrine prevents copyright from applying where there are only a small number of expressions of an idea available.

There are likely a couple of other very minor instances in which a work is uncopyrightable, but those are the main ones. And yes, they are fairly uncommon.