Re: Hollywood and BitTorrent Reach Agreement

Nov 30, 2005 0 Replies


Gary Gentile writes:


>> The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent
>> his Web site, bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular
>> movies, effectively frustrating people who search for illegal copies of >> films.
> Ineffectively, they mean! What gave them the idea that bittorrent.com
> was the only place to get torrent files, or even a major place? *

At least they don't require bittorrent to install a rootkit on every machine that uses it. (Not that they could, but they'd probably try if it hadn't already proven too embarrassing.)


Seth



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