Monday, February 14, 2005

MPAA on the warpath again

This time they have started shutting down bit torrent sites. Not quite sure of the legal principle here. As the owner of Loki Torrent states "its a bit like suing the roads department because smugglers use the roads."
Shut down so far are supernova.org and lokitorrent.com
However they have been replaced by supernova.com and exeem.com.
then there are sites like this one that show lots of other links for bit torrent sites. If you ask me the MPAA is like a thumb pressing on a puddle of water. Sure they may squash some but more will squirt out the side and keep on working. The way to manage P2P is not to try and stop it but turn it into a legitmate revenue source.
Here was my suggestion from a year ago almost to the day.

More links about it.
Sharelive forums
File sharing place
Alternative take at Bit Torrent News
Digital Music Weblog
Dmusic
Nikush


Posted by: Jethro | 11:48 PM |