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While The Pirate Bay undoubtedly has pointers to material of less-than-legal status, BitTorrent itself is a hugely useful technology, with many legal implementations. Thanks to a combination of (sensible) Swedish law and determination on the part of the operators of The Pirate Bay, the MPAA has failed in a takedown maneuver aginst the site.
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Not new, but this is a great article about the shift to user-controlled television viewing (based on downloading of shows, either legally or otherwise), driven by issues such as release and broadcast schedules in different markets. The success and viewing by worldwide audiences of shows such as Battlestar Galactica (and any number of others) [...]
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While I will always defend a copyright owner’s right to receive appropriate payment for access to his/her material, it’s nice to see someone standing up to the bully tactics of the RIAA. This blog is a commentary by the (EFF-backed) lawyers for Patricia Santangelo, who has refused to settle with the RIAA over filesharing [...]
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While I don’t think BitTorrent is dead by any means, the recent shutdowns (1, 2) of sites like SuprNova.org is going to put a big hole in P2P for a little while…
The fact is that P2P file sharing, while legally dubious at times, puts in the hands of users the ability to hear, read, play, [...]
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