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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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alt="" height="61" width="120"></a>After <a
href="http://www.oplin.org/4cast/?p=2548">last
week's 4cast</a> about possible legal issues for
Pinterest users, we thought it might be
interesting to look at the legal issues
surrounding BitTorrent. Everybody knows that
BitTorrent is bad, right? After all, if you do a
Google search that has the word "torrent" in it,
you'll repeatedly see the notice, "In response to
a complaint we received under the US Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed results
from this page." Well, things aren't always what
they seem, and BitTorrent in itself is not evil.
The problem (as with Pinterest) is in the way
people use it.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-bittorrent.htm">What
is BitTorrent?</a> (wiseGEEK/R. Kayne and L.
S. Wynn) "The idea behind BitTorrent is to allow
massive distribution of popular files without
penalizing the source by soaring bandwidth costs
and possible crashes due to demand that exceeds
the capability of the server. In this way,
anyone who creates a popular program, music file
or other product can make it available to the
public regardless of assets, even if the file
becomes highly popular."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/02/in-world-of-copyright-craziness-bittorrent-inc-soars-to-new-heights.ars">In
world of copyright craziness, BitTorrent, Inc.
soars to new heights</a> (Ars Technica/Jon
Brodkin) "In the middle of all these warring
groups-or perhaps more accurately, completely
removed from them-stands BitTorrent, Inc., a
company whose technological innovation gave the
Internet important new capabilities, making it
easier for everyone to share files, both legally
and illegally. Although the word 'BitTorrent' is
often used in context with the word 'piracy,'
the company itself has steered clear of legal
problems by avoiding any distribution of
unlicensed content, and narrowing its focus to
delivering the best Internet file-sharing
technology it's capable of building."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.dailytech.com/Study+BitTorrent+Piracy+Doesnt+Significantly+Hurt+Box+Office+Revenue/article23997.htm">Study:
BitTorrent piracy doesn't significantly hurt
box office revenue</a> (DailyTech/Michael
Hatamoto) "U.S. consumers are more likely to
head to the theater to watch a movie, even with
numerous piracy options available. Additionally,
there is no direct correlation between movie
availability on BitTorrent and in-theater movie
releases, despite the availability of cam
releases and DVD screeners for free via the
Internet. However, international consumers are
more likely to choose piracy over the box
office, because of a lack of viewing options
overseas."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/13/bittorrent-live/">BitTorrent
Live: Cheap, real-time P2P video streaming
that will kill TV</a> (TechCrunch/Josh
Constine) "Today, Bram Cohen, the author of the
BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing protocol, demoed
his latest creation at the SF MusicTech Summit.
BitTorrent Live lets any content owner or
publisher stream video to millions of people at
good quality and with just a few seconds of
latency...for free or cheap. Sports, news
events, simulcast TV shows, education, video
conferencing, or uncensored war zone broadcasts
- this technology will power the future of
video."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Bandwidth
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">People
using the BitTorrent protocol currently account
for about 20% of all Internet bandwidth use.
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