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A Bit of Bittorrent Bother

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the even-mainstream-media-has-trolls dept.

Lave writes "A journalist at the BBC is replying to complaints about its recent Newsnight show, where it stated that using Bittorrent to download copyrighted material is theft. It's a very frank and honest account about the perceived realities of the internet and how traditional media represents it. From the article: '[One] answer is that we're totally scared of new media, because new media is railways and we're canals, and you all just know how that's going to end. So we seek to equate the internet with all bad things to scare you off it. At some corporate Freudian level, there's some truth to that accusation.'"

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  1. Whoa... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    A reporter who's actually honest, tech-savy, and not prattling on about the latest incarnation of Bennifer?

    Now I've seen everything.

  2. Time for a new irony meter...again. by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 0, Troll


    '[One] answer is that we're totally scared of new media, because new media is railways and we're canals, and you all just know how that's going to end.

    And near the bottom of the page:

    What we'd really like to hear is a debate on the issue we did raise. If the ISPs can't now detect torrent data, then how will the security services manage it? And if they do figure it out, won't RnySmile and company just up the ante again?

    And is this secret war between Hollywood and the ISPs on the one side and the P2P community on the other one that can ever end in a truce, or will the stakes just keep raising and raising to the detriment of us all?

    Answers on a plain text postcard please.

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