Posts Tagged ‘Legal’

Filesharing is Great Business

Filesharing technologies like BitTorrent have a bad name to most people who are not using it. Take the BBC Newsnight report for example, or the MPAA rallies. However these enemies are at the same time BitTorrent’s greatest fans, and the ones who can make or save a lot of money with it.
Today, legal implementations [...]

Producer / ISP founder and his love for BitTorrent

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 [...]

BitTorrent Inc. Video Store

BitTorrent inc. is planning a video download website to distribute movies online. According to BitTorrent’s spokesman Lily Lin her company is currently negotiating with several content owners. This move is not really a big surprise after the announced collaboration with the MPAA and a british cable company.
BitTorrent co-founder and President Ashwin Navin states:
“We want [...]

BitTorrent inc. supports free music and movie trailer downloads

Today BitTorrent Inc. announced that it will be supporting the 20th Annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Music and Media Conference and the 13th Annual SXSW Film Conference and Festival.

Bye bye Grokster

Grokster is dead. The well known adware supported p2p client was forced to go down their service by the US Supreme court.