torrent

[Patrick Callahan]

Well, one difference is that if infringement _is_ committed, it's two
different violations under the law for torrents, and one for HTTP
downloads. Because torrenters download *and* upload, they can be charged
not only with violation by using the content without permission, but also
for distributing it (a charge with much higher penalties).

And another niggling thing: Linux is copyrighted. BSD is copyrighted. Every
creative work made in the US is automatically copyrighted.) So torrenting
definitely deals almost exclusively with copyrighted material. But not
every copyright belongs to a total dick, so... ;-)

Torrents are definitely a faster download for small projects (and often
projects hosted on servers which reside far, far away). The Blender Open
Movie projects are a good example here. The idea that torrents exist
exclusively to facilitate infringement is ridiculous.
On Jan 25, 2013 2:03 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> Bittorrent is simply a way of efficiently moving large amounts of data
> from point A to point B.  There is nothing about it that promotes copyright
> infringement, any more than just downloading something off a webpage though
> HTTP... unless you are saying that doing things efficiently is inherently
> dishonest.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 01/25/2013 11:01 AM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>
>> It's not but people who use Torrent want to believe it's used for
>> purposes OTHER than sharing copyrighted files.
>>
>> -jmz
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single
>>     location?
>>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
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