[pp.int.general] The Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party

[Glenn Kerbein]

Brian has hit it on the nose.

Brian McNeil wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 20:41 +0100, Félix Robles wrote:
>> But why should Google or any other webpage have to remove links to
>> torrent files? That's like removing from a webpage the GPS coordinates
>> of a knife.
> 
> That is wrong in quite a number of ways. I suggest you learn a good deal
> more about Bittorrent, and what a tracker is.
> 
> Google, as referred to in this discussion, is removing content.
> 
> TPB runs (or until very recently ran) a tracker; it tracks who has which
> bits of a file that is being shared.
> 
> Prior to their conviction, they were quite condescending, sarcastic, and
> dismissive in how they responded to takedown requests. They went as far
> as publishing requests and matching responses. Media conglomerates were,
> bluntly, told to education themselves about how bittorrent works. They
> employed people do do so for them; they tasked them with developing
> tools to monitor trackers and identify torrent participants.
> 
> I would assume this is the reason many bittorrent clients now support a
> blacklist/bad-clients list. I would suspect tools were developed to feed
> bad data to swarm members, and to find out who has what data.
> 
> OTOH... If they're *selling* any of these tools and not sharing their
> additions they may be in violation of the license bittorrent is released
> under.
> 
> 
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