B
Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28
| What is Bram Thinking?
I know he's got some form of mild autism, but this sounds very financially motivated.
Even he acknowledges that BT is currently used overwhelmingly for copyright-infringing distribution.
The trackerless module combined with a dedicated torrent search engine practically invites continued illegal uses.
The original idea, I thought, was that any ordinary search engine could find published torrents, since they were initiated by URLs served via http.
It makes lots of sense for ContentProviderCo.com to host torrent trackers for its material.
It makes much less sense (legally) for BTSearch.com to scour millions of individually published trackers advertising all kinds of material.
There's nothing wrong or illegal with it per se, and I'm all for the freedom of publishing paradigm, but it just smells funny and doesn't help make Bram's initial case that he intended BT for legal purposes.
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markopoleo
join:2003-04-02
Bonne Terre, MO | His autism is what makes him think 
You get devoted to one task and focus on it is one of effects of it. |
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UncleSmrgol
@TRW.COM | reply to B
When you do a google search and click through to a site, do you know whether a site has the rights to the intellectual property it displays? Suppose 95% of the sites didn't. Do the 5% count for anything? |
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B
Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28 |
What?
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