Official BitTorrent Search Opens

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.""

Comments

Re:Speedy

[John Seminal]

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

You are missing the point. They are not suing bit torrent, they are suing websites that have any instance of a copywrited item listed.

So if your website has the latest Lar's song, chances are they will try and shut you down. They will try and intimidate you. This is the reason I threw all my Metallica shit in the garbage. Fuck Metallica!!

Having open office and other legal stuff might mitigate your offence. You can then say, "hey, we don't host it, we just tell you where it is at".

It comes down to the question- is information free. Can we say whatever we want? Tell people anything? The old test was "emminent hard", where you could not scream "fire" in a theater. But what if I want to tell people how to make a bomb? Can I get arrested for that? What if I want to tell people why the president sucks while telling them how to make a bomb? Or why communism is better?

There is a threat to free speech, I think there will be a right wing revolution in the USA. Look at the library that now requires fingerprints. Look at how the patriot act lets law enforcment do a search without a warrent (BTW, someone explain to me how congress can pass a law that violates the constitution).

I think Bit Torrent is the least of our worries. When the time comes, the sites will go dead. The Routers will remove the IPA to URL link.

Re:Speedy

[grazzy]

It's a bit like with bombs, if you drop them on afghanistanis or iraqis, or pretty much anyone that doesnt obey the wall street - they're cool. Try dropping them on an american.

You get my point?