Hollywood canât stop the BitTorrent
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Movie and record industry executives want Americaâs highest court to review a ruling legitimizing peer-to-peer software, but file-sharing networks wonât give up the fight.
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Most ISPs actively engage in traffic shaping, bandwidth throttling, connection sniping or some attempt to keep the bandwidth consumed by high-traffic applications on their networks to a minimum. While this often ensures better performance for the neighborhood, it can mean painfully slow transfer speeds for those dabbling in BitTorrent -- legit or not. Here's how to beat the ISPs.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov 4  - Hollywood studios on Thursday launched a major new legal onslaught against online film piracy, announcing that they are suing people who illegally download movies from the Internet.
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Hollywood&#39;s top studios tried to knock the wind out of the sails of Internet movie pirates yesterday, filing the first wave of lawsuits against people they say are illegally sharing online copies of films.
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LOS ANGELES  - File-swappers beware. Illegally downloading movies can now get you sued. Like the recording companies, movie studios are fed up with computer users sharing unauthorized copies of
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With a new CEO, a new protocol that allows video to play while it downloads, and a new business providing file distribution services to content companies, BitTorrent is ready to go legit. But can it succeed where other peer-to-peer companies have failed?
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Comcast for months has denied blocking BitTorrent traffic, but new tests show that it takes aggressive filtering steps that AT&T, Time Warner Cable, and Cablevision do not.
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BitTorrent is a wonderful way to download files with greater reliability than other conventional means, but of course that means that it is used greatly for piracy... apparently.
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BitTorrent, the company that maintains the popular file-sharing system of the same name, announced several deals on Wednesday with major movie studios and content producers, moving its service still closer to mainstream acceptance.
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The technical challenge of sharing massive movie files over the Internet has kept the problem of P2P file sharing to a minimum for the movie industry.
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BitTorrent Inc., makers of a technology often used to trade pirated copies of Hollywood movies, is launching a Web site that will sell downloads of films and TV shows licensed from the studios.
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Email leak exposes stealth P2P honeypot MediaDefender vows to protect the big-name movie studios and record labels from attack by P2P file sharers. But it seems to have trouble protecting itself.â¦
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Last week, BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen was rumored to be leaving the company he co-founded -- just as it landed big distribution deals with Hollywood. Can the rumors be true? What's in store for online file-sharing? Michael Calore snags an exclusive interview.
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The update for the popular Windows BitTorrent client includes serious bug fixes, new encryption options and handy bandwidth controls. In Monkey Bites.
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The next time somebody asks you how BitTorrent works, fire up a Java applet that illustrates the concept perfectly. And check out how a
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(InfoWorld) - BitTorrent rolled out a paid music and movie download service on Monday, leveraging its fast distribution system infamous for the massive piracy it facilitated when it debuted in 2001. The BitTorrent Entertainment Network -- launched with movies such as "Superman Returns," TV shows including "24" and PC games -- will be a new entrant challenging other download services such as Apple's iTunes Store and Amazon.com's Unbox. BitTorrent's service is stocked with 5,000 movies, TV shows, PC games and music. BitTorrent, based in San Francisco, hasÂ reached agreementsÂ with more than 35 entertainment companies including 20th Century Fox, Viacom's MTV Networks and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer StudiosÂ toÂ offer their content using its P-to-PÂ (peer-to-peer) technology. The technology uses information files called "torrents" that allows users with compatible client software to download files from other users' computers, reducing the infrastructure needed by a company to run a download service. Although widely used for illegal file sharing, companies have struggled to employ P-to-P for viable commercial businesses while also protecting digital content from piracy. BitTorrent will use digital rights management (DRM) technology from Microsoft Corp. that will prevent protected content from being redistributed on the Internet or played on a different PC, according to The New York Times. Content will play through Windows Media Player 11, Microsoft's multimedia application. Some content, however, will not have DRM, BitTorrent said. DRM is loathed by some users, but music and movie companies insist it's integral to protecting their content from illegal file trading. TV shows on BitTorrent are purchased for ownership, but movies will expire after either 30 days or 24 hours after a user starts watching. TV downloads will cost US$1.99, while movie rentals will range from $2.99 to $3.99. By comparison, TV shows cost $1.99 on Unbox, and movies -- that can be owned and played on two PCs and two portable music players -- cost up to $14.99. Similarly, the iTunes Store sells to own, with TV episodes priced at $1.99 and movies ranging from $9.99 to $14.99. The download service puts BitTorrent, founded as a company in 2004, in good standing after music and movie industry trade groups sought to cripple it. Under pressure, in November 2005 BitTorrent removed links to torrents from its search engine that pointed to copyright content. However, illegal file sharing still flourishes using BitTorrent's technology. The company's co-founder, Bram Cohen, open sourced BitTorrent's software, and it has been incorporated into numerous different download clients. Also, search engines designed to find torrents linking to copyright material continue to operate despite efforts to shut them. Â
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BitTorrent, a file-sharing program, makes a wealth of legal and illicit content available to those who know where to look, and devours more than a third of the internet's bandwidth.