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."

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to hell with devs

[alphatel]

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.

Grrrr

[Anonymous Coward]

How dare progress stand in the way of dinosaur business models!

Re:Wow that did not last very long!

[Dins]

What about usenet?

Shhhhhh....

Re:Wow that did not last very long!

[sims 2]

Since we're suing tool makers why not go ahead and sue the makers of the auto dialers telemarketers use. That would greatly cut down on the telemarketing calls we receive. Save us all a lot of time and money.

Why not just call the entire Internet illegal?

[kheldan]

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.

Re:Why not just call the entire Internet illegal?

[Jack Griffin]

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.

Any argument you might have had just evaporated with this ridiculous statement.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hi...

http://www.ajpmonline.org/arti...

And before you get all uppity and start yet another gun argument, no-one is suggesting to outlaw firearms, gun regulation means allowing sensible people access to sensible weapons, just like in most other western countries that have gun regulations, and healthy gun ownership, but nowhere as many issues.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Never mind the fact that filesharing is never, ever going to go away, either; they're fighting a losing battle.

The strategy, like gun regulation, is not elimination, it is to minimise availability. By going after the low hanging fruit, it makes pirate file sharing a less common practice. So the stupid people who can't figure out technology will find it too hard, and so pay for it through legitimate channels instead (have you seen iTunes profit lately?) This strategy only has to make a 10-20% dent in the market and it is worth million of dollars. That doesn't sound that stupid to me.

Re: Why?

[TheReaperD]

You're forgetting that these groups don't care about valid uses of technology. All they care about is whether something can disrupt their revenue stream. Most of these groups would gladly ban the internet in its current form if it was within their power.