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Hollywood Buddies up with Bram Cohen

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the he's-so-cuddly dept.

brajesh writes "According to an AP story at Yahoo News, Hollywood studios announced an agreement with Bram Cohen, the creator of the popular BitTorrent file-swapping technology, that will keep him from helping users find pirated copies of movies online. The agreement requires BitTorrent to remove Web links leading to illegal content owned by the seven studios that are members of the MPAA. The agreement is a major breakthrough in MPAA's anti-piracy efforts. BitTorrent has been one of the major targets[.doc] of MPAA's anti-piracy tirade. However, Cohen's engine is far from the only tool used to find pirated BitTorrent files online. A handful of other online engines can search BitTorrent-specific sites, and ordinary search engines can also be used to find BitTorrent files."

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  1. OK, who else saw this... by mustafap · · Score: 4, Funny


    As

        BitTorrent: The Movie

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  2. Irrelevant. Mostly.... by AntiDragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Considering that Cohen is keen to keep clean as he has a company to maintain and that the MPAA is obviosly ill-informed about what bit-torrent is and does this really is a zero impact announcement.

    Still, it keeps Cohen in their good books (I'm not against someone making money!) and if it means the studios think they've made headway and so back off a bit it's a good thing all round.

    So everyone just smile an nod, kay? Whatever you do, don't tell them most people now just burn copies of movies... ...oh..shii...!

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  3. Re:total perfection not always needed by westyx · · Score: 5, Funny

    The biggest "choke point" in this case is Google. I would just *love* to see the RIAA and MPAA go after google.

  4. Ssshhhh! by i_should_be_working · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't give the mpaa any more ideas. I get all my warez from his site

  5. Re:As if this really makes a difference..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's sort of like closing the barn doors after all the horses have left.

    This actually makes sense, if you hate horses as much as the MPAA hates good movies.

  6. 8.75 Million in Venture Capital? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This guy's raised 8.75 million in venture capital, and my copy of BitTorrent STILL hassles me for donations with a message about BitTorrent being Bram's "sole source of income"? Yeah, he's hurtin'.

    I can't believe I'm eating IMITATION Kraft Dinner because I gave to this guy.

  7. Hey at last I can make money by WormholeFiend · · Score: 1, Funny

    from my patent on a system to put toothpaste back into the tube...

  8. Re:total perfection not always needed by scatter_gather · · Score: 5, Funny
    So sorry, coding and real life problems really go like this:

    The first 80% of the problem takes 80% of the time. The final 20% of the problem takes the other 80% of the time.

  9. Re:total perfection not always needed by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 4, Funny
    " The highest profile 'choke points' are Pirate Bay, Torrentspy, and Mininova. Everyone I know uses these."

    Not for long now though you insensitive clod!

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