Bye Bye Bittorrent?

[annuin]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/11/22/downloading.movies.ap/index.html

Hollywood negotiated an agreement Tuesday with the creator of BitTorrent software, popular for downloading pirated movies over the Internet, in a deal aimed at reducing illegal traffic in online films.

The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent his Web site, bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular movies, effectively frustrating people who search for illegal copies of films, according to executives familiar with the deal.

Looks like Bittorrent might be headed the way of Napster?

Comments

[darkvervain.livejournal.com]

It won't stop people from posting BitTorrents of stuff, it's just not going to be on the search engine at bittorrent.com. There are plenty of other BitTorrent search engines out there. :)

The MPAA and RIAA can't stop anyone!

[domesticmouse.livejournal.com]

I thought they were doing a good job of stopping the major labels from facing reality...

[trejkaz.livejournal.com]

Exactly. The "official" BitTorrent search engine only appeared relatively recently. The rest of us were using Mininova. Before Mininova we were using Suprnova, and besides those there have been a thousand ways to find files, including Google.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Linky to Mininova?

[trejkaz.livejournal.com]

Here (http://www.mininova.org/).

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[passercul.livejournal.com]

Neat. Though I'd actually been using TorrentSearch, and after that I've been nosing around TorrentSpy. Doesn't seem anywhere as cool as mininova though.

[lordravage.livejournal.com]

Ummmmm....that sucks.

~Julian

Completely OT..

[pixie-nz.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of your vegan pumpkin cookie recipie. I seem to have lost the link.
I'm going to be making a whole heap of vegan cookies for Christmas presents this year.. Well, if all goes to plan :)

Re: Completely OT..

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

http://sugarrocket.com/yummie2.html

Scroll all the way to the right. I've never actually made the frosting for them, so I don't know how well that works. Nor have I used the orange peel (you don't exactly have that lying around most of the time).

This one's not strictly vegan, but the butter can be easily substituted I'm sure: http://teaswap.stefmike.org/teaswap_archives/001460.html

Earl grey tea stars.

I haven't tried that recipe out yet, but I want to do so soon. I saved it because it looked yummy, and because I love Earl Grey tea.

Re: Completely OT..

[pixie-nz.livejournal.com]

Oooh thank you!

Re: Completely OT..

[passercul.livejournal.com]

Ooh, and this would be a tangent to the OT, but that reminds me of some green tea cookies sitting down in my kitchen right now, that someone brought me.

You folks (generic: I have no idea who exactly I may or may not be addressing) ever try such a thing?

Re: Completely OT..

[pixie-nz.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen them here. I like green tea!