On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 06:19:16PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> As a comment on the first link, it's annoying that people presume
> BitTorrent is providing illegal downloads. I've downloaded gigs and gigs
> via BitTorrent ( and served up more than I've downloaded ) and 100% of
> that was legal. Not all of it was CD and DVD ISOs :), but it was all legal
> for me to download and legal for me to share.
Of course BitTorrent is providing illegal downloads. Shipping containers
have also been found to contain illegal or stolen goods, too. Same goes
for trucks, and email. So, like almost every other new technology,
BitTorrent is almost exactly like something we've had for years as far
as legal ramifications go. But the media companies will try to convince
everyone that it's somehow different.
We should just find some cases of stolen goods being distributed through
normal retail channels and see if we can get all the major distributors
shut down. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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