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Official BitTorrent Search Opens

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the escalating-arms-race dept.

starrsoft writes "The official BitTorrent search has debuted. The search engine was built by BT inventor Bram Cohen. The question? Will he get sued? The BT search seems to be down right now. (It'll really be down after this story is posted...) Spiegel has more (En): "Naturally other sites such as Bitoogle, Isohunt, SuprNova or Torrentspy have tried before, but either they became fast a goal of legal attacks on the part of the industry or they furnished rather durchwachsene [??] results. BitTorrent search however proves with first tests [that it is] as...Google...fast. The results come from a large number [of] more well-known and unknown... sites, and...permits sufficient restricting to the inquiry, in order to obtain really relevant results.""

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  1. Speedy by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Informative

    BitTorrent search however proves with first tests [that it is] as...Google...fast.

    So fast that the browser times out on a search for "mozilla". Hopefully they'll get those kinks worked out soon. :-/

    Bandwidth generously provided by Hot or Not

    That explains everything. ;-)

    Will he get sued?

    I still think that anyone trying to sue Bittorrent or a generic search engine would have a hard time of it. Bittorrent has so many legal uses that it just isn't funny. Here's some example of legal torrents:

    Privateer Remake
    OpenOffice
    Star Trek: New Voyages (legal fan made)
    FreeBSD
    Star Wars: Revelations (legal fan made)
    Xandros Free Edition
    Mozilla Firefox
    Doom 3 Demo
    America's Army (now for Linux and OSX)

    I could go on, but I think you get the point.

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  2. Durchwachsen by slavemowgli · · Score: 5, Informative

    "durchwachsen" means "marbled" or "streaky" when applied to meat, but can also be used figuratively, meaning "mixed", "so-so" etc.

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  3. Read the ToS by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 5, Informative

    Look at the ToS, it has some.. intresting stuff.

    2. Online Conduct

    You agree that you will not use the Site or the Services:

    * to develop, generate, upload, post, display, transmit, disseminate or store information that: (A) infringes any third party's intellectual property or other proprietary rights, including, but not limited to, using third party copyrighted materials, without appropriate permission, using third party trademarks without appropriate permission or attribution, or using or distributing third party information (whether or not protected as a trade secret) in violation of a duty of confidentiality or otherwise; (B) is or, in BitTorrent's sole discretion, would have the tendency to be, defamatory, libelous, harassing, pornographic, an invasion of privacy, obscene, abusive, illegal, racist, offensive or harmful or otherwise objectionable; (C) constitutes unsolicited promotions, advertising or solicitations for funds, good or services, including junk mail and spam; (D) otherwise violates this Terms of Service in any way; or (E) obstructs or otherwise interferes with the normal performance of another person's use of the Sites or the Services;

    Seems they are covering a few legal holes.. but will it stand against RIAA/MPAA's pack of lawyers?

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