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.