The Human BitTorrent Swarm

Written by enigmax on March 26, 2007

Following the forced closure of some of Bulgaria’s most loved BitTorrent trackers, the file-sharing peers of Bulgaria have done the thing they do best : they organized a human BitTorrent swarm in Sophia - and hundreds joined it to protest against the government.

After the Bulgarian government blocked access to some of Bulgaria’s most-loved BitTorrent trackers, the file-sharing community weren’t just going to sit back and take it. They decided to hold a demonstration and on March 15th the organizers applied to the Sophia Municipality for permission. It was granted and the protest - which was coordinated on internet forums - took place on Sunday, ending in the South Park.

And as you can see from this photograph, the Bulgarians are very passionate about this issue, turning up in their hundreds to offer support.

BitTorrent Protest in Bulgaria

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20 Responses (Add yours or TrackBack)

1 Mar 26, 2007 at 16:16 by Skins

Boy, Id be there if i could.
:)

2 Mar 26, 2007 at 19:52 by smartass

POWER TO THE PEOPLE. When will they learn that they can not shut down something of this magnitude. If the copy right law in Bulgaria is crap then what else can people do but pirate. I’m curious if Torrent Freak has a Bulgarian Reader maybe he can comment what’s going on now.

3 Mar 27, 2007 at 03:33 by ReDuX

You got Dugg, site = pwnt

Good on the Bulgarians btw. “ye’ do right!”

4 Mar 27, 2007 at 04:04 by tehcypress

This article makes me proud to be a Bulgarian! W00T@!

5 Mar 27, 2007 at 04:10 by Lub4o

I’m Bulgaria but I live in California. I heard about that. It’s complete bullshit as no one there is educated and since our law system is not that powerful, common end-users are left out.

6 Mar 27, 2007 at 04:53 by lkv

The protest is against closing down bt trackers not piracy.

7 Mar 27, 2007 at 11:22 by an

The protest is against closing down sites who are not illegal and against breaking ppl`s constitutional rights of sharing and getting information.

8 Mar 27, 2007 at 14:36 by raverman

I am from Bulgaria, so here’s some info: the trackers under question were in fact hosted outside Bulgaria, one of them in USA. None of them broke the current laws of Bulgaria. Again, like in Sweden last year, the government has bent over to the commersial interests of a single company (Amotera), thus running over several laws against censure, freedom of speech protection and etc. I hope that the guilty clerks are punished. For being plain stupid, at the least…

9 Mar 27, 2007 at 14:58 by Yay

Way to go guys!

Make it unignorable!

10 Mar 29, 2007 at 17:48 by somebody.else

[quote comment="73633"]The protest is against closing down bt trackers not piracy.[/quote]
What’s the difference? BT trackers are legal but their content no.

11 Apr 01, 2007 at 22:00 by Holland

I wanted to download some Bulgarian films……. :( :(( Any ideas where I can do that now????

12 Jun 06, 2007 at 15:52 by kravopietsa

I’m not sure if this site is closed for international peering but here is it…zamunda.net there is a category of bulgarian films.

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