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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."
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.
BREIN is a government-sponsored shake down.
They have collected on music royalties, even for songs that never signed onto a label or labels connected to them but never pay out.
It is quite literally a single man organization (1 office) that produced some anti piracy ads and manages to spend millions of euros per year.
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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.