Anti-Bittorrent

I have did some research and found this by acci­dent… (pics doesn’t relate to any­thing, just want to show ^^”)

Anti-Piracy Lobby Gains Power Over Inter­net Subscribers:

The power of the enter­tain­ment indus­try and anti-piracy lob­by­ists is grow­ing rapidly. In the UK, six major ISPs have teamed up with the music indus­try to start mass warn­ing file­shar­ers. France has gone even fur­ther, recently adopt­ing a law that will enable the enter­tain­ment indus­try to dis­con­nect alleged pirates on their third warn­ing. Sim­i­lar meth­ods are pro­posed through­out the rest of the world.

It’s quite scary if you think about it. In France the right to access the Inter­net now rests on the shoddy evi­dence of anti-piracy units, evi­dence that is known to be inac­cu­rate. Chris­tine Albanel, the French Min­is­ter for Cul­ture recently quoted research that allegedly found that 97% of all file-sharers will stop down­load­ing copy­righted con­tent when they receive a warn­ing, but this seems to be very unlikely.

Unfor­tu­nately, the min­is­ter failed to name the resource for the study, but it does raise some inter­est­ing ques­tions. All these new agree­ments and poli­cies have strong faith in the deter­rent func­tion of these so called warn­ings, but thus far there is no evi­dence that these actu­ally have any effect. That’s right, mil­lions of peo­ple are now receiv­ing warn­ings (some­times even threats), and they may very well lead to nothing.

You would think that the gov­ern­ment would at least get some solid proof of the deter­rent effect of these let­ters but, per­haps even more impor­tantly, check the valid­ity of the anti-piracy evi­dence before they allow the enter­tain­ment indus­try to start con­tact­ing mil­lions of cit­i­zens with intim­i­dat­ing let­ters. It might turn out that thou­sands of users receive a let­ter for some­thing they didn’t do, and that wouldn’t be the first time that had hap­pened. On the other hand, even those who are cor­rectly accused might not change their behav­ior so easily.

Warn­ing let­ters will most likely make most pirates more cau­tious, and they will find ways to get what they want more anony­mously. What­ever hap­pens, it wont stop the most of them from get­ting what they want. As Justin Milne of Tel­stra Big­Pond, Australia’s largest Inter­net provider put it: “There’s no one thing that you can do that is going to fix the prob­lem (but) when peo­ple think about this area, they often look to ISPs to pro­vide the sil­ver bullet.”

So how can “pirates” be stopped then? This is not an easy ques­tion to answer.

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Tor­rent­f­reak

I’ve also found that more than 50% of tor­rent users down­load TV shows. I don’t think the pirates would be stop that easy.

I just only won­der how oth­ers thinkin’ about Bit­tor­rent. ille­gal? Or noth­ing is bet­ter than free?

For me, nothing’s wrong about bit­tor­rent. Actu­ally, bit­tor­rent is the great­est way to do busi­ness with, isn’t that right?

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Note: as I said on the top, the pic doesn’t relate to the post or any­thing. Just want to show off.

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