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BitTorrent to Sue Over Trademark

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-p-i-ro-nee dept.

joe 155 writes "The people at BitTorrent are to begin to protect their rights through lawsuits if necessary: "The company will set the lawyers on anyone using the BitTorrent name, and trademark, if they are using it to distribute spyware or adware" They also plan to put into action a system where by people will have to pay a licence fee to use the name in the hope of cutting down on adware distribution."

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  1. Re:WTF by CaptainZapp · · Score: 5, Informative
    Then people will stop calling it BitTorrent ... end of story.

    You didn't quite read the (very short) FA, before chiming in, now did you?

    The idea is that they want to avoid that spyware - and adware pushers freeload on BitTorrents trademark.

    Man, I'm sure that Mr. Pavlov would really love slashdot. You only oughta say "Patent", or "Lawyer" or "Microsoft" and the dogs go "Yapyapyap!"

    Fascinating...

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  2. Re:Free Software? by Tweekster · · Score: 5, Informative

    Any reputable client does not contain spyware/adware anyways so this wont matter to the OSS ones

    basically the scum that repackage a client and trick people into downloading it (on some trackers) will have a problem...which is great.
    screw them, they are scum

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