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Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Demands Torrents Time Cease and Desist
An anonymous reader writes: Not even a week has gone by since Torrents Time appeared on the scene, and the site has already been served with a cease-and-desist letter. Anti-piracy group BREIN, based in the Netherlands, has deemed the streaming tool an "illegal application" and demands the administrators "cease and desist the distribution of Torrents Time immediately."
Immediately tie up anyone who creates a method to distribute material over the internet in lawsuits.
Force them to consume all of their time and income in legal fees
Guarantee that after they are decimated, several hundred anonymous, hidden services with the same agenda will surface with far greater impact.
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
Wow that did not last very long!
But the real issue just suing over tools that can be used.
What about usenet? Has the lawsuits ageist that stopped or has it's usage really dropped off other then the pay servers that are geared to downloading files.
This is the type of technology we were promised back in the early nineties (usually followed by "and who will bring this to you? at&t") and is also a really good stab at reducing the redundant point-point traffic caused by Netflix and other "legitimate" streaming services. But it takes an application outside the law as a demonstrator. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. There was a time, for instance, when any video recording/playback set of features was first used for pr0n, and then gradually migrated to legitimate use. But I've been hoping so far in vain for legitimate services to torrent their content. (except for a few independent content creators.) I guess it makes too much sense.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
How dare progress stand in the way of dinosaur business models!
The PEOPLE DEMAND that BREIN die a horrible death.
Let's not forget that BREIN pirated music for use in commercials. Pot, kettle.
Start planning a v2 which allows users to make their own videos available with the same ease. Market it as "truely free youtube alternative". Maybe not trivial to do it, and to do it right, but it can take a lot of the wind out of the anti-piracy organizations sails regarding their claims "just made for piracy"
will they demand microsoft stop distributing that unlawful software?!
The Internet is a gigantic network devised for the sole purpose of transporting data between computers. Obviously that can be used to violate copyright laws anywhere in the world, so why not just cut to the chase and call the whole thing illegal? Once they accomplish that, then they can move on to USB flash drives and external hard drives, writeable CDs, DVDs, and Bluray discs, and then finally HDDs and SSDs, and any non-volatile semiconductor memory, since all of it can be used to copy and transport copyrighted data. In their perfect world all computers would run off EPROMs, no file storage capability, and any and all media would be streaming only. Give them enough time and they'd find a way to edit people's wetware memory so they wouldn't be allowed to learn anything copyrighted or remember copyrighted images or sounds.
All hyperbole and kidding aside, is it just me or do these BREIN fools sound like just more politicians, completely devoid of any ability to understand technical things? Their argument is like liberals trying to outlaw firearms: they make a basic assumption that 'guns are evil, therefore get rid of guns' when in reality people kill people, and eliminating guns won't really do a damn thing; someone wants to kill, they'll find a way, gun or no gun. Bittorrent has many legitimate uses. Deeming any bittorrent client 'illegal' is asinine, you'd have to deem all bittorrent clients illegal, and the entire protocol illegal, too. At that point you may as well call FTP illegal, or any chat client that allows file transfer illegal, or make file attachments to email illegal. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Never mind the fact that filesharing is never, ever going to go away, either; they're fighting a losing battle.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
is asked. or when? where? how?
I would probably have never found out about this app, but since you're coming down so hard and fast on it I figured it must be good, so I've now downloaded and installed it.
And an unsuccessful one at that
I thought the whole point of Torrents Time was they stole the basic idea from pirates and made it data-driven, so that it became neutral/agnostic with respect to piracy. (Sort of like the "cp" command: it depends on what file you give it.) I can understand pirates getting pissed off by this, but why would BREIN? Is BREIN just a front for a bunch of data center investors?
I guess I can see how Torrents Time would be good at pirating, but it's also very good at not pirating. Perhaps so good at non-pirate applications (e.g. instant "hosting" of your home videos), that it's got some people scared. Makes you wonder if Google/Youtube or Vimeo is behind this.
of Newsbin Pro (which is the only client that is worth a shit on Windows) and canceled his Usenet service years ago.
Torrents are better. There is more available. The speeds are often faster. I don't have worry about missing random pieces nearly as often; although it has happened that a torrent will get cut off 99% and never finish.
It's easier to use in general although probably not any easier to set up properly (uPNP disabled, ensconced in a VM, necessary ports properly forwarded, careful research in to the VPN to make sure they'll ignore requests and don't log, etc) and I can use a VPN to hide my traffic from my shitty big name anti-consumer ISP which is actually cheaper than the Usenet service was and more reliable with more benefits than simple "piracy" (where I grew up this was called Sharing).
In short, fuck these assholes, they lost the war before it started.
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I think Bill Gates has the button can someone call him.
but imagine a decentralized Youtube where folks like the AVGN, Jontron & ProJared could do all the Nintendo coverage they want without having to pay to criticize games.
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Brein Googled the words new "Torrent" and "Torrent Time" popped up.
Time for a c&d letter and extra strong latte.
Job Done, where is my 20% bonus
"Immediately" in what time zone?
Are they located in the US? On an offshore oil rig? An abandoned coal mine? In Switzerland? In a nuclear missile silo in North Korea?
Are they in orbit on the Space Station? Or at a coffee shop in Manhattan?
What time is it, in Torrents Time?
"Anti-Piracy Group" sounds so unwieldy. Let's call them just... contas?