TorrentFreak

• Ernesto
• March 3, 2006
• 3
• bittorrent,
  e-mule,
  Legal,
  ronnie-apteker,
  torrent
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Ronnie Apteker, a dotcom millionaire, one of the founders of South Africa’s largest corporate ISP, a movie producer, and sometimes a stand up comedian talks about his love for BitTorrent and e-mule. Finally someone from the other side who writes something positive about BitTorrent. Ronnie writes: So what is the nature of all this traffic? [...]

Ronnie Apteker, a dotcom millionaire, one of the founders of South Africa’s largest corporate ISP, a movie producer, and sometimes a stand up comedian talks about his love for BitTorrent and e-mule. Finally someone from the other side who writes something positive about BitTorrent.

Ronnie writes:

So what is the nature of all this traffic? Think big files… You guessed it: movies. And music files , entire albums in fact, computer games, TV shows, mini-series, you name it. I can go online and download the latest movies playing on circuit in America right now with this technology.

Yes, you need fast internet access and yes, it takes a while to download a one-gig file, for example, even with a fast connection, but it really is an idiot-proof proposition.

I can keep my BitTorrent running in the background while I bang away at the keyboard, and, a few days later, presto, there’s the latest entertainment, in solid digital quality.

He continues talking about legal issues.

Wait a minute. Is any of this legal? Well, er, the software is. And as far as I know I am allowed to write about it. But breaking copyright laws is not cool. I know a bit about intellectual property and about things like movies. Yes, I wouldn’t be happy if some of the film projects I have been involved with suddenly started showing up on BitTorrent. But this is progress, I think. And it is something we can’t escape.

Ronnie concludes

The message here today: share the love. And also shares the files. That way the torrent and the mule will live happily ever after.

Ronnie Apteker, a dotcom millionaire, one of the founders of South Africa’s largest corporate ISP, a movie producer, and sometimes a stand up comedian talks about his love for BitTorrent...