BitTorrent has shaken hands with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and has agreed to try to help stem the amount of illegal downloads of movies and other digital content through its site...
BitTorrent has shaken hands with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and has agreed to try to help stem the amount of illegal downloads of movies and other digital content through its site. As a result of the agreement, BitTorrent will work to remove any copyright material that appears in its search engine. The announcement was made by Bram Cohen, the founder and chief executive of BitTorrent, alongside Dan Glickman, chairman of the MPAA at a news conference in Los Angeles. p>However, the genie remains out of the bottle. while Cohen and BitTorrent can work to remove links through its own web site, the protocols, which underlie the file transfer technology, are out in the public domain and will doubtless continue to be used by other p2p sites. Since the Supreme Court found against Grokster this summer, it has been in BitTorrent's interests to be seen to be cracking down on the illegal use of its software. Grokster had claimed the 'fair use' defence established by MGM vs Sony in early 80s over the use of VCRs. In that landmark case, the electronics manufacturer successfully established that if there
