March 15, 2005

Hollywood hedges its bets on BitTorrent

The Washington Post notes that while the Motion Picture Association of America is waging war against illegal P2P file sharing, there has been no moves against BitTorrent developers and users directly. The paper suggests optimistically that this may be the key to legal distribution in the future.

BitTorrent May Prove Too Good to Quash (washingtonpost.com)

BitTorrent does have its issues, particularly when it comes to distributing content for which there is a markedly smaller audience, than say Harry Potter films, but it is definitely the one to watch and what other programs will evolve from.

Posted by .M. at March 15, 2005 10:19 PM | TrackBack
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