Bittorrent, legalities and the high moral ground

Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on October 6, 2005

Bittorrent (confusingly both a protocol and an implementation of the protocol), is undoubtly becoming wildly popular as a way for individuals to download content. Bittorrent uses distributed downloading to enable very efficient and robust downloading of large files (movies, music albums, CD/DVD images). Unfortunately much of the content is of dubious copyright licensing, but fortunately hope is on the horizon, Azureus are building a list of legal bittorrent sites, covering hundreds of torrents (files) across a broad spectrum of content.

A cynic might say that Azureus are doing this partly for their own protection because the legality of such software depends on it having legal uses, but easier access to legal, free, content has got to be good.

The wiki has rather odd sign-in requirements, if anyone knows of any legal bittorrent sites that aren't already listed, feel free to email me.

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		Bittorrent, legalities and the high moral ground Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on October 6, 2005 Bittorrent (confusingly both a protocol and an implementation of the protocol), is undoubtly becoming wildly popular as a way for individuals to download content. Bittorrent uses distributed downloading to enable very efficient and robust downloading of large files (movies, music albums, CD/DVD images). Unfortunately much of the content is of dubious copyright licensing, but fortunately hope is on the horizon, Azureus are building a list of legal bittorrent sites, covering hundreds of torrents (files) across a broad spectrum of content. A cynic might say that Azureus are doing this partly for their own protection because the legality of such software depends on it having legal uses, but easier access to legal, free, content has got to be good. The wiki has rather odd sign-in requirements, if anyone knows of any legal bittorrent sites that aren't already listed, feel free to email me. Bittorrent Stuart's blog Login or register to post comments 4720 reads
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