BitTorrent Creator Teams Up With Hollywood
News Hollywood studios announced an agreement with Bram Cohen, the creator of the popular BitTorrent file-swapping technology, that will keep him from helping users find pirated copies of movies online. Cohen had launched a service on his Web site last...
[November 23, 2005, 8:10]
BitTorrent Creator Teams Up With Hollywood
Talkback A 100% and totaly waste of time and money. Give us customer good , easy and value for our money.thats the simple and easy concept. So whithdraw all DRM / Sony hacking , stinking ,unsafe product you currently work on and give us Value.
[November 23, 2005, 22:41]
BitTorrent User Jailed For Movie Sharing
News A Hong Kong citizen has been jailed for three months after sharing three Hollywood movies online over the BitTorrent network, according to reports. Chan Nai-ming is thought to be the first person to be convicted of copyright infringement using the...
[November 7, 2005, 10:50]
BitTorrent Is Dead. Long Live BitTorrent?
News Just weeks after legal attacks crippled the popular BitTorrent file-swapping community, an underground programmer from its ranks has stepped forward to announce new software designed to withstand future onslaughts from Hollywood.
[January 5, 2005, 15:15]
BitTorrent Inks Studio Distribution Deal
News BitTorrent, the creator of the file-sharing software that for some has become synonymous with piracy, has struck a landmark distribution deal with a Hollywood studio. Entertainment Group has agreed to use BitTorrent's peer-to-peer system to...
[May 9, 2006, 9:10]
BitTorrent User Convicted Over Movie Sharing
News Chan Nai-Ming was found guilty of distributing three Hollywood films using BitTorrent's peer-to-peer file sharing technology, according to Taiwanese English-language newspaper The China Post. A Hong Kong man has been convicted of copyright...
[October 25, 2005, 14:10]
BitTorrent Moves Into Hardware
News Warner Bros.became the first studio to embrace BitTorrent's technology, once feared by many in Hollywood because it was used for illegal file sharing. Three hardware manufacturers will embed file-sharing software BitTorrent into their consumer...
[October 24, 2006, 11:30]
Man Arrested In BitTorrent Probe
Talkback "The company behind BitTorrent, SuprNova.org, was recently attacked by Hollywood companies on a mission to shut down file-sharing companies. Suprnova.org is not the company behind bittorrent, it was simply a website that hosted some bittorrent...
[January 14, 2005, 15:26]
Man Arrested In BitTorrent Probe
Talkback Suprnova is NOT the company behind bittorrent, THERE IS NO company, bram cohen wrote the software and andrzej preston the 17 yr old slovenian set up a website that linked you to torrents all over the internet.he took it down for personal reasons...
[January 15, 2005, 9:24]
Another BitTorrent Hub Bites The Dust
News The agency said it was the first criminal enforcement action aimed at copyright infringers who use the now-popular BitTorrent file-swapping technology. The BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology allows people to download and upload files from each...
[May 26, 2005, 16:40]
Legal Swapping Networks Flourish
News In part, that's why the company's chief executive is now reaching out to the broad community of people using BitTorrent, an underground file-trading application using similar technology that has exploded in popularity among people distributing or...
[March 12, 2004, 7:40]
Swappers Log Off Kazaa As Alternatives Emerge
News Like another fast-growing technology called BitTorrent, eDonkey was designed from the outset to provide efficient distribution of big files. Since then, however, newcomers such as eDonkey and BitTorrent have been coming on strong amid reports that...
[July 1, 2004, 11:15]
US Seeks To Stop TV Pirates
News First-run movies and television programs are already routinely available on these services, and through newer technologies such as BitTorrent. More to the point, if the flag isn't implemented, Hollywood might not trust digital television enough to...
[October 28, 2003, 12:30]
'Joost' Aims To Make The Internet More Like TV
News BitTorrent, the San Francisco-based distributor of a competing peer-to-peer company is also vying to license technology to internet video companies. During the past year, Warner Bros.cut distribution deals with Guba, a little-known video-sharing...
[January 16, 2007, 8:22]
Usenet Under Fire
News Isn't all this harder than using BitTorrent or eDonkey? The other technology is an innovation similar, in a sense, to BitTorrent's torrent files. In a new series of lawsuits, Hollywood studios for the first time are targeting companies that provide...
[February 27, 2006, 14:30]
Hollywood Heads To Court Over Movie-swapping
Talkback Personally I'm getting tired of seeing valid, useful technologies like BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer content distribution technologies tied up in court battles to protect aging, failing "product" distribution models.
[November 5, 2004, 15:07]
