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Hollywood Buddies up with Bram Cohen
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."
Uh ... does anybody have a torrent of it?
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
I just don't get the pirate movie thing. Here's why: 1) Why would I watch some camcorder piece of garbage when I can wait for something more fitting my big screen tv? 2)As a developer, I find intellectual property theft too be distasteful and disgusting. 3)In Toronto, there are fools who are selling this bootleg crap on Spadina (Chinatown) and I can't wait till the authorities enforce the laws on these scum (now that's a movie I would download). 4) Piracy hurts the other connected industries (lots of people make their living on secondary industries). 5) Theft is theft. It's a poor way to live life if you steal. What will you teach your children? That sampling food in the grocery store is ok because they make money on you?! 6) Don't you want all the extras on the dvd? I just don't understand this crime.