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Bram Cohen to Release BitTorrent Search Engine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

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.'"

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  1. legal? by qolinar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here come the lawyers.

  2. Already exists? by anethema · · Score: 0, Redundant

    www.isohunt.com already indexes an assload of sites and is ad-supported. It is my primary site of this sort.

    Also, isnt it kind of stupid for bram to release something like this? Kind of really makes the bittorrent look even more like it is used mostly for illegal things. Not like it matters, just a tool, etc. But the MPAA might take notice and use it for more propaganda fuel.

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  3. Ok... by LilGuy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This guy either has some really large juevos or he's incredibly dim. This seems like a very poor idea at times like these when the MPAA and RIAA are going after every torrent site that exists.

    Or maybe I don't understand enough legal mumbo-jumbo to point that out...

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