File-sharing Pirates Attempt New Software Standard

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It looks like movie pirates aren’t happy with BitTorrent anymore and have decided to make their own file sharing program. Oh well, if you don’t like the way things are being done, do it yourself.

A Swedish Web site that promotes trading of pirated movies is developing a new software standard for Internet downloads in a move that could make it easier to swap media files, which is illegal in many countries.
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He and his partners thumb their noses at U.S. and European copyright laws in letters to studios and game makers, who send them cease-and-desist letters that they post on their site.

"Sweden is not a state in the United States," says one. "It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ... morons."
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+1 for awesome!
 
"Sweden is not a state in the United States," says one. "It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are ... morons."
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They're basically snding out a big F U right there....:p
 
"We are not really disappointed here," Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent, told Reuters. "The pirate community has never paid us a dime."
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The pirate community may not have made them rich but it made them popular.
 
RoBo said:
enjoy
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Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in
question.

Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully
legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have
sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the
streets and attacking people :-(.
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LMAO those are great, thanks for the laughs :D

Now I do have a question, assuming they make this new protocol, whats preventing ISP's from blocking it like they do with BT now? I'm sure it will be used for legit means as well (game demo downloads / linux distros / etc) as it sounds like it will just be a more anonymous / secure version of BT.
 
jmackay said:
LMAO those are great, thanks for the laughs :D

Now I do have a question, assuming they make this new protocol, whats preventing ISP's from blocking it like they do with BT now? I'm sure it will be used for legit means as well (game demo downloads / linux distros / etc) as it sounds like it will just be a more anonymous / secure version of BT.
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Possibly by using better encryption, harder to detect and that way they could actually use the DMCA against companies that attempt to decrypt the packets. (just a thought)
 
RoBo said:
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ROFL. The linotype one is, by far, the most hilarious and slap-in-the-face of all of them.

Btw, umm....this news was out on the net like...1-2 weeks ago?

And what's with the non-mention of The Pirate Bay in the title? It may bring them more users, but it'll also bring em bad publicity for the people that don't like em.

and burning_monk is prolly right...using high-level encryption would be something they'd love todo. Maybe they'd invent their own crazy encryption algorithm, so that decoding that would also violate some law lol
 
I don't care who you are, that's some funny stuff right there. :p

As illegal as it sounds, they are in the right. Nothing in Swedish law is being broken.
 
"We are not really disappointed here," Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent, told Reuters. "The pirate community has never paid us a dime."
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You don't say!
 
Burning_Monk said:
Possibly by using better encryption, harder to detect and that way they could actually use the DMCA against companies that attempt to decrypt the packets. (just a thought)
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You can't block the **AA from seeing who is using a peer-to-peer network.

All they have to do is connect and they can see who is downloading and who is uploading. It is essential to the nature of P2P.
 
What I dont understand is why the pirate bay would burn its bridges with microsoft. Seems to me thats itching for trouble.

The Pirate bay, correct me if im wrong, but you guys are using windows server edition 2003 and maybe a little of Microsofts SQL aren't you?
 
Somehow I don't think Microsoft and TPB have any professional relationship, considering the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of Microsoft software that is downloaded through them.

I also don't see what having a piece of Microsoft software has to do with having a relationship with them, you can grab it off the shelf in a store or buy it online or even... thePIRATEbay it.
 
Steve said:
It looks like movie pirates aren’t happy with BitTorrent anymore and have decided to make their own file sharing program.
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They're making a different fork of Bittorrent in response to Bram Cohen's announced intent to close the source of some components in the next version. I believe it was on Slashdot a while ago?
 
MrWizard6600 said:
What I dont understand is why the pirate bay would burn its bridges with microsoft. Seems to me thats itching for trouble.

The Pirate bay, correct me if im wrong, but you guys are using windows server edition 2003 and maybe a little of Microsofts SQL aren't you?
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Actually they are probably running a Linux server. Its not like they would have paid for any server though :p
 
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