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| Thread ID: 69098 | 2006-05-22 01:17:00 | is bitTorrent legal? | lance4k (4644) | Press F1 |
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| 456740 | 2006-05-22 02:36:00 | Most people are still using BitTorrent's software to share illegal stuff, but BitTorrent itself is going more and more legit, as noted above. See also these stories about BitTorrent's recent deal to distribute content created by Time Warner, the largest media company on the planet (it's hard to get more grown-up and mainstreet than that): news.com.com news.com.com |
Chris Keall (10417) | ||
| 456741 | 2006-05-22 02:44:00 | I think Apple's new OS X Leopard operating system is slated to come out with bittorrent integrated into the OS (or maybe it's iTunes, I can't remember). The guys at diggnation.com talk about it on one of the podcasts. Basically its going to make it easier and cheaper to diistribute legitimate content, by sharing the bandwidth between users. | Sb0h (3744) | ||
| 456742 | 2006-05-22 03:14:00 | lets just drop the car analogy Yes. Otherwise it's a never-ending downward spiral to consider whether other forms of file swapping are legitimate/legal/lawful. Eg, if file swapping methods became illegal, whatever the means, then FTP, email and even damn http browsers would be outlawed. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 456743 | 2006-05-22 05:20:00 | Ignorance of the law is not a defence, never has been. It is if your a politition.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 456744 | 2006-05-22 06:27:00 | Quote: Originally Posted by godfather Ignorance of the law is not a defence, never has been . It is if your a politition . . No, not always . There's one in jail right now . :D She was caught in the ACT . They are allowed (encouraged?)to be ignorant, however . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 456745 | 2006-05-22 06:45:00 | If you haven't noticed a lot of other countries ISP blocked BitTorrent port, and I think talking about illegal activities here is not very appropriate. | MTLance (6768) | ||
| 456746 | 2006-05-22 07:02:00 | and they throttle bittorent to around 2kb/s | LXXXVIII (6863) | ||
| 456747 | 2006-05-22 07:10:00 | If you haven't noticed a lot of other countries ISP blocked BitTorrent port My bittorrent client picks a random port to use when you install it. I thought that most clients would be like that & the ISPs wouldn't be able to filter it by port - they would have to use packet inspection. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 456748 | 2006-05-22 07:11:00 | Yes bittorrent itself is 100% legal. There are a large number of genuine legal downloads available (podcasts & vidcasts) such as this one (www.twit.tv) or here. (http:) Bittorrent is a legal file distribution program when the content you are downloading is legal. You can make home movies and distribute them via bittorrent if you wish. Downloading copyright material is illegal no matter which file distribution application you use.The above comment and Godfather's comments sum it up nicely. It is the user behind the program that controls the legal or non-legal activity - not the program itself. You make the decision to use it for accessing illegal software. I use a torrent client (Azureus) to download my Linux distro ISOs. More and more distro developers prefer downloaders to use this method as it takes the load off their servers and often allows people to download the file faster than from ftp or http servers. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 456749 | 2006-05-22 11:07:00 | My bittorrent client picks a random port to use when you install it. I thought that most clients would be like that & the ISPs wouldn't be able to filter it by port - they would have to use packet inspection. Packet inspection? Is THAT legal? And how do they do it? Do they do it? |
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