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| reply to nanoflower
Re: Good for commercial distribution, but can't replace BT
That would work, but it would expose the ISPs to liability for any copyright violations. Maybe a lot of torrent traffic on a given day is users getting a recent Hollywood movie - if the ISP served pieces of that torrent, the copyright holder would sue and win right away.
To avoid this and still save "outside" traffic, the ISP would have to inspect all the torrents and serve only those which are not infringing. But this would be a big person-hours burden, and would invite liability for torrents they were carrying but not seeding (because they would then know which are infringing and which are not). |
