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Oh god, I hope not. Not because the technology is not awesome, but because of laywers. Especially in Germany they target torrent users and try to sue them like
by jagermo 10y ago
Oh god, I hope not. Not because the technology is not awesome, but because of laywers. Especially in Germany they target torrent users and try to sue them like crazy.
If you download, for example, a Windows.iso from technet and start sharing it via the integrated p2p system, I can see a shitstorm of lawsuits raging through the web.
- thirdsun 10y agoI doubt that very much. Wouldn't a wide spread use of torrents help to legitimize the technology?
- sametmax 10y agoMy thoughts precisely.
- fuzzy2 10y agoThat’s not a good example. You simply don’t have the rights to redistribute a Windows ISO, even if you need a license to use it. So a C&D is justifiable. Microsoft usually doesn’t care though. You’ll be perfectly fine sharing legal stuff like Linux ISOs or mods for your favorite game using BitTorrent 24/7.
- buildbuildbuild 10y agoDiscriminating against users based on the protocol they use rather than by the content they distribute, be it by rate limiting or by angry legal letters, holds back innovation in my opinion. Users should not fear a content-agnostic protocol. Mass adoption of bittorrent would render this type of discrimination much more difficult.
- adrianN 10y agoEven if you're not pirating stuff, it seems very difficult to automatically seed things you download. Even if you have the legitimate right to download something that doesn't necessarily mean that you also have the right to distribute it. Everything you download would have to have an appropriate licence.