p2pnet - rss feed: BiTorrent’s new groove
p2p news / p2pnet: Bram Cohen’s BitTorrent has turned the corporate corner.
Cohen, who created the formerly independent p2p file sharing protocol, effectively signed up with Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) last November and now will, “enter a growing Internet video business,” says Light Reading.
He and MPAA boss China Dan Glickman demonstrated their new togetherness in a photo op, but that hasn’t stopped Glickman from trying to close down any and all sites not associated with the new, squeaky clean BitTorrent.
Quoting BT spokeswoman Lily Lin, the company is in licensing negotiations with several content owners and, “We want to aggregate video and other content and make it available in a legal and sanctioned area,” BT’s Ashwin Navin states.
But the company is, “vague on the types of video content it plans to sell,” says Light Reading, going on:
“Because its new business will depend heavily on the trust of content owners, BitTorrent has been playing nice with Hollywood. In a show of good faith, BitTorrent promised the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) last year that it would remove copyright protected content from its P2P search engine results.”
BT also wants to, “help ISPs build their own video stores,” the story states, adding:
“BitTorrent will participate in a P2P video trial with the British cable ISP ntl group ltd starting in April. Under the terms, BitTorrent will aggregate the video content and provide ntl with the P2P distribution platform.”
Also See:
became one - BitTorrent, Hollywood team up, November 22, 2005
Light Reading - BitTorrent to Open Video Store, March 2, 2006
squeaky clean - MPAA launches massive attack, February 24, 2006
P2P video tria - NTL, BitTorrent, CacheLogic trial, February 10, 2006
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Or, what did Dan Dan ‘offer’ Bram to have the latter “turn his coat”?
And another thing (I hope you see this, Dan); what the MPIA is doing is about NOTHING more than CONTROL. Not producers rights, but those who have the avarice, GREED, money, lack-of-conscience, and willing lap-dogs in Congress to assist them (MPIA) in running their proverbial steamroller.
Dan, within the past few days a serial-killer was sentenced in New Jersey. During sentencing, one of the victim’s relatives shouted “There ain’t no Exit door(s) from Hell, baby”. And to you; Dan & merry/gloating bunch of thugs, I say the same thing.
“There ain’t no exit door from Hell”. And Hell is, Dan, where you & yours will end up, on the Day of Days.
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:07 pm
Well at least with your principals you’ll be able to feed your kids with a nice hot serving of ‘at least I didn’t sell out’.
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Are we going to see BT trying to shut down independent site like piratebay.org and police the content, or is this just and internal thing on the BT website?