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

[Brian McNeil]

On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 22:23 -0700, Glenn Kerbein wrote:
> Brian has hit it on the nose.

Thank you; although I now spot an error where I used "education" instead
of "educate".


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<missing intro of content 'owner' use of bittorrent>

> > 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.

I think this last point is an important stick to consider beating them
with; I smell a case for the EFF to fight.


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