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Google and Bing Have No Obligation To Censor Searches For Torrents (betanews.com)
Microsoft and Google are under no obligation to weed out 'torrent' results from their respective search engines, the High Court of Paris has ruled. BetaNews adds: French music industry group SNEP went to court on behalf of a trio of artists, requesting that Microsoft and Google automatically filter out links to pirated material. The group had called for a complete block on searches that include the word 'torrent' as well as blocking sites whose name includes the word. The court found that SNEP's request was far too broad, saying: "SNEP's requests are general, and pertain not to a specific site but to all websites accessible through the stated methods, without consideration for identifying or even determining the site's content, on the premise that the term 'Torrent' is necessarily associated with infringing content".The court added that 'torrent' is a common noun, which has a range of different meanings.
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Not everything bittorrent is pirated content. Lots of Linux distributions offer torrent files as an alternative download method (often much faster than the mirrors), for example.
French musicians will now strike in the streets, blocking traffic and blaring awful music in protest.
People are stupid.
Who is blackmailing who? LOL.
Just search for e.g. "the matrix" filetype:torrent
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Won't you feel for the MPAA/RIAA, they've lost so much money they can't even afford bribe the governmental systems into bending over backwards for them anymore.
That a lack of understanding of a particular word has reached the High Courts of a First World nation? What kind of world is this place coming to...
Will they go after streaming next?
These organisations are not worthy of feeling anything for them. Essentially, if they drown the most they an have from me is a glass of water.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
... for the torrent of angry musicians
So this moderator, manish (@srcref), posts a story from his former employer's site (Beta News) every day. The worst part is that this story is actually a second-hand copy-paste from TorrentFreak. And even worse is that no user has submitted this story, but has been shoved down our throats by this guy. Are you still looking for reasons why Slashdot is going down?
My office employs mostly nerds who are into comic books, StarvWars, video games, etc. When a major new game version comes out, the office mostly shuts down for the day as everyone stays home to play the new release of the game.
If a dozen of my co-workers are downloading the new Star Wars fan flick the day it comes out, Bittorrent is much more efficient than regular ftp or http downloads. Only one copy need be downloaded from the far-away server to our office. Mostly everybody copies it around the office, downloading from each other over the local LAN. That's WAY more efficient than downloading a dozen copies from a server 1,000 miles away. (In actual practice maybe twice the file size may be downloaded over the internet, which is six times more efficient than downloading a dozen copies over the internet).
In less extreme cases, it's still more efficient to download mostly from other people in Texas than from the origin server in California.
On the other hand, there is some overhead. In worst cases, Bittorrent can use more bandwidth than ftp.
Also there are of course several ways to measure efficiency. Bittorrent is normally time-efficient. It's bandwidth efficient in that rather than requiring someone to buy a high upstream speed connection, it uses the idle upstream bandwidth that people are already paying for anyway. It can often be less bandwidth efficient in that there is overhead, using more total bandwidth.
So whether or not it's efficient very much depends on a) the specific situation and b) which type of efficiency you're interested in.
>blackmailing *whom*?
FTFY
These organisations are not worthy of feeling anything for them. Essentially, if they drown the most they an have from me is a glass of water.
I say water is to good for the MPAA. Drink the water then drown them with it after.
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What is this "high court of Paris"? There is no court named like that in France. Is it Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris? or Cour d'Appel de Paris? Or even Cour de Cassation, which is french supreme court?
Corporations do not have more rights than citizens and cannot accuse everyone of committing a 'crime'.
The preoccupation with "liberte, fraternite, egalite" causes some stupid outcomes when applied to the internet, such as the entitlement to be forgotten, but this time it worked as intended.
...who are the musicians? Streisand Effect is coming for them.
Just curious - why on earth does you boss allow his workers to illegally download movies using office network and equipment? And why don't you (seemingly) think this is an issue yourself?
He said "fan film" - presumably at least some of those are legal.
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