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offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 09:36 [#01386518]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker




File-Sharing Network Thrives Beneath the Radar

By Adam Pasick

LONDON (Reuters) - A file-sharing program called BitTorrent
has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the
Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are
taking notice.

For those who know where to look, there's a wealth of
content, both legal -- such as hip-hop from the Beastie Boys
and video game promos -- and illicit, including a wide range
of TV shows, computer games and movies.

Average users are taking advantage of the software's ability
to cheaply spread files around the Internet. For example,
when comedian Jon Stewart made an incendiary appearance on
CNN's political talk show "Crossfire," thousands used
BitTorrent to share the much-discussed video segment.

Even as lawsuits from music companies have driven people
away from peer-to-peer programs like KaZaa, BitTorrent has
thus far avoided the ire of groups such as the Motion
Picture Association of America. But as BitTorrent's
popularity grows, the service could become a target for
copyright lawsuits.

According to British Web analysis firm CacheLogic,
BitTorrent accounts for an astounding 35 percent of all the
traffic on the Internet -- more than all other peer-to-peer
programs combined -- and dwarfs mainstream traffic like Web
pages.

"I don't think Hollywood is willing to let it slide, but
whether they're able to (stop it) is another matter," Bram
Cohen, the programer who created BitTorrent, told Reuters.

John Malcolm, director of worldwide anti-piracy operations
for the MPAA, said that his group is well aware of the vast
amounts of copyrighted material being traded via
BitTorrent.

"It's a very efficient delivery system for large files, and
it's being used and abused by a hell of a lot of people," he
told Reuters. "We're studying our options, as we do with all
new technologies which are abused by people to engage in
theft."

FOR GOOD OR EVIL

BitTorrent, which is available for free on
http://bittorrent.com, can be used to dist


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 09:37 [#01386519]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker



distribute legitimate content and to enable copyright
infringement on a massive scale. The key is to understand
how the software works.

Let's say you want to download a copy of this week's episode
of "Desperate Housewives." Rather than downloading the
actual digital file that contains the show, instead you
would download a small file called a "torrent" onto your
computer.

When you open that file on your computer, BitTorrent
searches for other users that have downloaded the same
"torrent."

BitTorrent's "file-swarming" software breaks the original
digital file into fragments, then those fragments are shared
between all of the users that have downloaded the "torrent."
Then the software stitches together those fragments into a
single file that a users can view on their PC.

Sites like Slovenia-based Suprnova (http://www.suprnova.org)
offer up thousands of different torrents without storing the
shows themselves.

Suprnova is a treasure trove of movies, television shows,
and pirated games and software. Funded by advertising, it is
run by a teen-age programer who goes only by the name
Sloncek, who did not respond to an e-mailed interview
request.

Enabling users to share copyrighted material illicitly may
put Suprnova and its users on shaky legal ground.

"They're doing something flagrantly illegal, but getting
away with it because they're offshore," said Cohen. He is
not eager to get into a battle about how his creation is
used. "To me, it's all bits," he said.

But Cohen has warned that BitTorrent is ill-suited to
illegal activities, a view echoed by John Malcolm of MPAA.

"People who use these systems and think they're anonymous
are mistaken," Malcolm said. Asked if he thought sites like
Suprnova were illegal, he said: "That's still an issue we're
studying, that reasonable minds can disagree on," he said.

GOING LEGIT

Meanwhile, BitTorrent is rapidly emerging as the preferred
means of distributing large amounts of legitimate content
such as versions of the free com


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 09:39 [#01386520]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker



computer operating system Linux, and these benign uses may
give it some legal protection.

"Almost any software that makes it easy to swap copyrighted
files is ripe for a crackdown BitTorrent's turn at bat will
definitely happen," said Harvard University associate law
professor Jonathan Zittrain. "At least under U.S. law, it's
a bit more difficult to find the makers liable as long as
the software is capable of being used for innocent uses,
which I think (BitTorrent) surely is."

Among the best legitimate sites for movies and music:

-- Legal Torrents (http://www.legaltorrents.com/), which
includes a wide selection of electronic music. It also has
the Wired Magazine Creative Commons CD, which has songs from
artists like the Beastie Boys who agreed to release some of
their songs under a more permissive copyright that allows
free distribution and remixing.

-- Torrentocracy (http://torrentocracy.com/torrents/) has
videos of the U.S. presidential debates and other political
materials.

-- File Soup (http://www.filesoup.com) offers open-source
software and freeware, music from artists whose labels don't
belong to the Recording Industry Association of America
trade group, and programs from public television stations
like PBS or the BBC.

-- Etree (http://bt.etree.org) is for devotees of
"trade-friendly" bands like Phish and the Dead, who
encourage fans to share live recordings, usually in the form
of large files that have been minimally compressed to
maintain sound quality.



 

offline Motha Fucka from Selvaggina (Brazil) on 2004-11-07 09:43 [#01386525]
Points: 2038 Status: Regular



I am too lazy to read all this text! o_0


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 09:44 [#01386528]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker | Followup to Motha Fucka: #01386525



i would suggest reading it if you use bitTorrent


 

offline Motha Fucka from Selvaggina (Brazil) on 2004-11-07 09:46 [#01386531]
Points: 2038 Status: Regular | Followup to mrgypsum: #01386528



I don´t dear but thanks for ALL this information.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 09:47 [#01386534]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker



i would have just linked it, but the news real is behind my
firewall and you would be unable to get to it :)


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-11-07 09:48 [#01386535]
Points: 26326 Status: Lurker | Show recordbag



Bit Torrent is awesome. I'm not sure how they're going to
crack down on it though.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 09:52 [#01386538]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker | Followup to giginger: #01386535



maybe just using scare tactics


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2004-11-07 09:59 [#01386541]
Points: 14210 Status: Regular | Followup to mrgypsum: #01386538



or ip addresses?

thanks for the article


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-11-07 10:01 [#01386543]
Points: 27325 Status: Lurker



1. Filesoup sold out. That used to be a great place to get
things. They really fucked it up.

2. There are programs to protect your identity. This article
wont mention that because then this "scare tactic" wont be
effective.

3. They got nowhere with their attempts on p2p networks
anyways.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 10:03 [#01386546]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker | Followup to virginpusher: #01386543



this is from the associated press, but i got it from the
news real at my work, so i would think it pretty sound.


 

offline plaster from splitska 10 on 2004-11-07 10:13 [#01386559]
Points: 4173 Status: Regular



tolstoyed=slovenian=sloncek


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 10:36 [#01386588]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker | Followup to plaster: #01386559



eh?


 

offline plaster from splitska 10 on 2004-11-07 10:43 [#01386595]
Points: 4173 Status: Regular | Followup to mrgypsum: #01386588



it's a hoax


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 10:46 [#01386602]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker | Followup to plaster: #01386595



no, i took this off of the news real, they might just be
trying to use scare tactics but the content of the article
is very real.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 10:54 [#01386620]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker



here another article that just came off of it:

U.S. President Bush answers question at first news
conference after reelection


President Bush will renew a quest in his second term for a
constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage as
essential to a 'hopeful and decent' society, his top
political aide said November 7, 2004. Bush holds a news
conference at the White House compound in Washington,
November Photo by Larry Downing/Reuters



 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-11-07 10:58 [#01386627]
Points: 16065 Status: Regular



ive read it all, scary shit


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-11-07 11:01 [#01386629]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator



this article tells me next to nothing.

the film industry wants to crack down on illegal
downloading. is this a surprise?

until they actually start taking action, there isn't much to
do.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 11:01 [#01386630]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker




U.S. Moves Toward a New Conservative Era

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's election victory
reflected a marked shift to the right which Republicans hope
will usher in a generation of conservative rule by the
party, analysts said.

The biggest voter turnout since 1968, which defeated
Democrat John Kerry and expanded Republican majorities in
Congress, is being seen by some as another milestone for the
conservative movement that put Ronald Reagan in the White
House in 1980 and gave Republicans control of Congress in
1994.

"Reagan defined the new majority. The Contract with America
in the 1994 election won the new majority, and Bush in 2004
has reaffirmed and strengthened the new majority," said Newt
Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives.

With Republicans holding a majority of state governorships
and influencing the shape of the federal judiciary, many in
the party are hoping for a return to the dominance the party
enjoyed from President William McKinley's election in 1896
to the 1930s.

Chief Bush adviser Karl Rove said Republicans could become
the governing party for decades. "The country is still close
but it has moved in a Republican direction," he said on
NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

"The Republicans are quite well-placed -- even if they don't
win every election -- to shape American domestic politics
into the next generation," said New York University
professor Tony Judt, a Bush critic.

A striking feature of the Bush victory is the ascendant role
of Christian evangelicals in key states including Ohio,
where Republicans parlayed opposition to gay marriage and
other so-called moral issues into record voter turnout.

"It's unprecedented," said historian Joan Hoff, who fears
the United States could be heading for a period of
regressive policies similar to the 1920s, a decade marked by
Prohibition and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.

Others disagree. Kevin Phillips, a former Republican
official and political analyst who has be


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 11:03 [#01386631]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker | Followup to qrter: #01386629



hence the title of the thread


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-11-07 11:03 [#01386632]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator | Followup to mrgypsum: #01386630



"Chief Bush adviser Karl Rove said Republicans could
become the governing party for decades."


ugh.. :(


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-11-07 11:04 [#01386633]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator | Followup to mrgypsum: #01386631



a-HA!! :)


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-11-07 11:06 [#01386635]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker | Followup to qrter: #01386632



the us is in a sad state of affairs right now :(


 

offline plaster from splitska 10 on 2004-11-07 12:51 [#01386672]
Points: 4173 Status: Regular



lol...the colledge where my friend studies got an letter
from paramount saying that someone downloaded shitload of
movies during a year period and that the will be sued for
that.
it passed a year since that and nothing happened...they sill
dl movies from torrent apps.


 

offline plaster from splitska 10 on 2004-11-07 12:54 [#01386673]
Points: 4173 Status: Regular | Followup to mrgypsum: #01386635



the US doesn't know where to turn first as far as i managed
to concieve the situation.


 


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