Logan 5
Wondering what happens next..
Premium,MVM
join:2001-05-25
The WasteLAN
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| Bit torrent is here to stay
For better or worse, it's not going away any time soon so instead if trying to litigate and prosecute it out of business, all of that is having the unintended opposite effect of giving it more attention to people who might not have otherwise thought to "sample the buffet"...
I dont presume to have the answer but trying to squash it out of existance certainly doesnt seem to be doing very well.... |
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MyDogHsFleas
Premium
join:2007-08-15
Austin, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T Southwest
| The ISPs don't like BitTorrent because it breaks their business model of shared bandwidth. It makes everyone an always-uploading server. They don't care, really, that copyrighted material is being shared.
The content owners and re-distributors, on the other hand, care a lot about copyrighted material, whether it's shared via BitTorrent or straight downloaded from YouTube or wherever. But they don't like BitTorrent because, by any measure, the vast amount of traffic sent using BitTorrent is copyrighted material.
Corporations also don't like BitTorrent because it's a security risk. One mis-click and confidential stuff on my work laptop is suddenly pushed out to the world. (The company I work for prohibits BitTorrent for exactly this reason.)
The people who like BitTorrent are 98% those who want to receive and distribute copyrighted material, and 2% people who use BitTorrent to distribute, legitimately, their own material, or freely-copiable FOSS material.
The intersection of people who think BitTorrent is good, and people who use it for legitimate purposes, is very small. Not zero... but very small.
This is a problem. I don't know what the solution is, but it's a problem. Because BitTorrent is great technology. It's like a new kind of node in the network.. not a client, not a server, but something else. And it's easy to set up, it works great, and it is effective at what it does. It kind of turns the Internet into a crude data grid. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
| said by MyDogHsFleas  :The people who like BitTorrent are 98% those who want to receive and distribute copyrighted material, and 2% people who use BitTorrent to distribute, legitimately, their own material, or freely-copiable FOSS material. And 96% of all stats are made up.  |
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james
join:2001-02-26
antarctica | 101% of all statistics are inaccurate.  |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO
1 edit | reply to MyDogHsFleas
hmm
you cant misclick and share a file over BT its not like other p2p stuff
you have to make a tracker and then UPLOAD that tracker to some one else |
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stealth50k
@charter.com | reply to MyDogHsFleas
Theres more to it than just clicking share on bittorent. You gotta upload info to the tracker and all that. P2p programs though its a matter of clicking yes or no  |
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fonzbear2000
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join:2005-08-09
Saint Paul, MN
| reply to elios
said by elios :hmm you cant misclick and share a file over BT its not like other p2p stuff you have to make a tracker and then UPLOAD that tracker to some one else Not if you use Limewire and turn BT sharing off
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