Hindustan Times Promotes “Piracy”
Written by Ernesto on April 30, 2006One of India’s leading newspapers “The Hindustan Times” published an article on BitTorrent. They point their readers to the top-torrent-sites, and list some of the top torrents.
Not long ago the BBC said that BitTorrent aids terrorists and pedophiles, but the Hindustan Times obviously doesn’t agree. BitTorrent gives you freedom! A quote from the article:
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One of India’s leading newspapers “The Hindustan Times” published an article on BitTorrent. They point their readers to the top-torrent-sites, and list some of the top torrents.
Not long ago the BBC said that BitTorrent aids terrorists and pedophiles, but the Hindustan Times obviously doesn’t agree. BitTorrent gives you freedom! A quote from the article:
If you have a BitTorrent client installed on your PC, you basically know what this is about. And if you dont have a client, then it’s time to be zapped. Bit torrent gives you freedom. You no longer pay for the music, movies, TV Series, books, software and games that you download. Interested? Just Google “Bit Torrent” and figure it out. Once you got it, here’s what you should download…
Don’t believe it? Check out this scanned version of the article.
At this moment India already has a higher percentage of BitTorrent users than the US and the UK, and this article might give it a little boost.
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Unbelieveable… I From India and This is way too Much. Hope ISP’s Dont Shape the Traffic.
Woah !!
Is this for true !!
I m from India too wonder what this article is gonna do !!
India shows the way! Very good of Hindustan Times. It’s time to stop this US madness of imposed global copyrights and patents to extort money from poorer countries, in the name of US companies “protecting their investments”.
My cousin in India said that most people don’t even have internet!
that’s probably true, but still, there live over a billion (1.000.000.000) people! That’s almost 1 out 0f 5 on this planet
i hve read that .. it is perfecty true….
I was shocked to read this.
Rydh,KSA
Hehe. Stories like this make me smile. Of course, advocating theft would be silly of me but I don’t mind being silly if people want to have different opions on the definition of ownership and theft when it comes down to noughts and one’s.
Hooraay for the newspaper for putting it plainly when other media try to act as if there is nothing of the kind going on…yet anyone can do a google search and see just how rampant torrenting is.
HitMeWithIt
w00t!!??
i live in india, and i thaught HT was a good newspaper….
and now i’m SURE of it! ;)
HT is a very cheap news paper. So the article doesnt really surprise me.
well,The newspaper doesnt gain anything out of this.The readers do.And yes,no other newspaper in India would do such a thin,AFAIK.
Really a bold step by HT.My only worry is,this will bring unwanted attention from the ISP’s and probably the **AA’s! Who knows ! [Not that they didnt know anything before though,but still..].
They shouldnt have written” NO need to pay any more” etc.!!!
Im From India and wonderin how come i never saw this copy of hindustan times.. good enough i got it here!!
Its funny though how a newspaper is promotin piracy.. COooooL
Copyright laws should be protected.. but the fact is that movies nowadays are not good enough to pirate. I mean they are worth nothing. Its the same fighting,kissing,fu**ing and destructive concepts. The best way to punish these producers is to pirate their movies to hell and make them poppers. We should and are responsible citizens of the world to support good movies, good software reasonably priced by buying them. If we don’t support it.. it will be lost forever.
I agree with boomhari. Movies these days are not even worth the download! Given the Internet speeds in India, it’s unreasonable to expect that piracy here is going to be as huge as in the U.S. A movie takes 12 mins to download in the U.S., it takes more than 24 hours to do the same here!
When it comes to software though, I wholeheartedly support original software–as long as it is affordable. You cannot sell original software in India that is expensive even by U.S. standards. It’s about time organizations realize the market potential India has and uses volume to make its sales instead of margins!
ohhh ya, and these indian girls are so hot, so they probably do know what they are talking about. thank you god that there are good emerging nations that still dont want to blow up in the name of allah. long live india!!!
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