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."

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Censorship

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This amounts to censorship of information. No matter how beloved Bram may have been, no one has yet prospered after becoming a sellout and agreeing to censorship. I predict that his star will start falling after this is actually implemented, while other, less-encumbered, versions of the BT client will ascend to its place.