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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.
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.
It is, since how otherwise do you describe "a large amount of water that moves very quickly in one direction" (m-w entry)?
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
French musicians will now strike in the streets, blocking traffic and blaring awful music in protest.
Just search for e.g. "the matrix" filetype:torrent
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
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.
Cut them some slack, they're French. They probably didn't even know there's any other language where that funny word "torrent" actually means something and isn't just some made up cute term.
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
If they had their way you would have to insert your credit card into the computer before it would allow you to browse the internet.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
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?
Probably more a question of old school businesses who just don't want to get it? There are too many of them in France and too much paper work and risk adversness to create a healthy startup culture.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
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.
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?
The French invented the modern word "torrent" (originally a Latin word, "torrentem") in the 16th century.
...who are the musicians? Streisand Effect is coming for them.
Actually, it describes
- Cours d'eau de montagne, rapide et irrégulier, de faible longueur, plus ou moins à sec entre des crues violentes et brusques.
- Liquide qui coule en abondance : Des torrents de larmes.
- Abondance de quelque chose qui semble se répandre : Un torrent de lumière. Un torrent d'injures (http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/torrent/78539)
Because Torrent just happens to also be a French word. It wouldn't have been a valid reason in Spain (which however doesn't exclude other valid reasons).
No, your children are not the special ones. Nor are your pets.
He said "fan film" - presumably at least some of those are legal.
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
>Cut them some slack, they're French. They probably didn't even know there's any other language where that funny word "torrent" actually means something and isn't just some made up cute term.
Except that 'torrent' is, in fact, a French word. It means the exact same thing as in English. English got the word from French which in turn got it from Latin. Being of latin descent the word 'torrent' and close variations are common in over a dozen languages.
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
Mais non, je peux aussi repondre a cela en francais.
Oder waere Deutsch angenehmer?
Preferiresti la risposta in Italiano?
I'll spare you Russian, /. still has issues with the Kyrillic alphabet and it feels weird to type Russian in Latin letters. And talking about it, my Latin sure isn't good enough anymore to even pretend I could answer you (though I should still be able to read it, mostly. You start forgetting if you don't need something for a while).
So, no, I do speak a few languages. Some of them more often, some of them rather rarely. Though, admittedly, French and English are not my first languages. I give you that.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Ah yes Catalan, Gallego... I stand corrected; although I'm sure the point wasn't missed.
No, your children are not the special ones. Nor are your pets.