BitTorrent reaches out
p2p news / p2pnet: It’s not Grokster. It’s BitTorrent.
That’s the message from Scott Galupo in the Washington Times.
BT "makes Grokster, and similar peer-to-peer services such as Kazaa, look like wheezing cigarette smokers on a jog in August," he states.
Actually, Scott, Grokster and Kazaa are more like old butt-ends, and soggy ones at that. No one’s used them for many moons.
Be that as it may, BitTorrent is "about to become to the Web what Twizzlers are to licorice," promises Galupo, who calls BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen a "dot-com casualty".
He describes BT as something that, "enables downloaders to slurp up files that, in the days when Napster was still in diapers, seemed inconveniently bulky. System crashes were typical. No longer. Movies that might take days to download on, say, EDonkey, take an hour on BitTorrent. The transfer of music files, video games, television shows and popular office software are commensurably speedy."
And he goes on to reveal, "BitTorrent is a tool that a lot of people abuse to swap movies illegally on the Web," a thought put to him by MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) spokeswoman Kori Bernard.
So on and etc.
"More important, though, it appears Mr. Cohen wants to play ball," Galupo concludes because according to Bernard, "BitTorrent has reached out to a lot of major motion picture studios one on one, and we’ve had conversations of our own. I do think that they have high hopes of making a deal to stop the abuse of its product."
Not at all incidentally, Scott, µTorrent 1.2 is now available ; )
(Cheers, Masha ; )
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See:-
Washington Times – Hollywood’s real threat, November 11, 2005
dot-com casualty – Torrential Reign, October 18, 2005
November 11th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
this guy thinks he has “breaking news”.
“I do think that they have high hopes of making a deal to stop the abuse of its product.”
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“it’s product”?
Bittorrent is EVERYONE’S PRODUCT because it’s open source.
and edonkey is also useless. some studies this year suggested that edonkey and emule took the lead against bittorrent. just not true. it might have appeared that way for a few weeks during summer months when there were fewer new tv programs.
forget Twizzlers. Bitorrent is the Dom Perignon and Filet Mignon of p2p applications. and it will alwasy be so.
November 11th, 2005 at 3:35 pm
Indeed. Since it is not centralised, there is no way to stop the use of Bittorrent, or control it, short of forcing ISPs to filter bt traffic. Do the MPAA et al really not realise this, or are they just making PR?
You can’t say that it will always be the best, though – someday there’ll be something even better: encrypted IP, for example?
November 11th, 2005 at 5:06 pm
huray! you cant stop bt cause its already out there! XD
November 11th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
To build on catflap’s comment. Bit Torrent was initially conceived as an algorithm for optimizing the Pareto efficiency in distributing digital data.
Now, it can be best characterized as a ‘technique’ or a ‘process’. It is not a ‘product’. The various Bit Torrent Clients would be ‘products’, but they all essentially do the same thing. It’s like a telephone. It can come in all different shapes and sizes, with all kinds of features, functions, bells, and whistles, but it has to meet a basic set of standards so that it works properly when connected to the network.
The same thing is true with Bit Torrent Trackers. There’s several different kinds, but they all work similarly. Trackers are probably going to start slowly dwindling as distributed tracking via the Dynamic Hash Table gains in popularity.
I do find it more than mildly amusing that the distinguished Washington Times journalist (who I’m sure is a ‘real’ journalist) actually believes that Hollywood and the MPAA are somehow going to rescue poor Bit Torrent from a life of tawdry downloading and piracy abuse by theiving criminals who steal the magic from the movies and just ruin everything for everyone, the dastardly evil-doers!
–TurboGeek
November 12th, 2005 at 3:03 am
The next step should be true anonymity for clients.