Legal Torrent Sites Help Legitimize BitTorrent

Jeff writes "In today's Seattle Times, technology columnist Paul Andrews highlights how legal torrent sites such as CommonBits may lead to wider adoption and acceptance of BitTorrent. With reports that illegal torrent usage may be more than a third of Internet traffic, sites like LegalTorrents, Torrentocracy, Prodigem and bt.etree may offer a compelling defense to future legal attacks while simultaneously promoting fair use rights. Andrews goes on to argue that the future of television may be no further away than integration of podcasting, RSS, tagging and BlogTorrent."

Defense

[Anonymous Coward]

With reports that illegal torrent usage may be more than a third of Internet traffic, sites like LegalTorrents, Torrentocracy, Prodigem and bt.etree may offer a compelling defense to future legal attacks

MPAA: I'm suing you for you website with links to Torrents of all our movies.

Pirate: Look, that other site over there offers torrents of non-infringing material.

Court: Because other people are using torrents lawfully, this guy can pirate all he likes. Case dismissed.

got a torrent?

[Anonymous Coward]

they got slashdotted already :/ anybody got a torrent?

Re:BitTorrent 4.0.0 Released

[LiquidCoooled]

Additional features in the slashdot edition:

Increase penis size by at least 20%

Makes you irresistable to the opposite sex*

Automatic emailing to RIAA/MPAA/CIA and FBI when illegal content seeded.

Dynamic updating of your DNS, making your banking and ebay experience better.

Full software testing

Dupe removal

*No guarantee they will be the same species however.

Re:Lefty-bashing

[Overzeetop]

I'm guessing this guy (GP) watches only FOX. He's knows it's unbiased, because they tell him it is :-)

News Flash

[ZehFernando]

In a shocker announcement, Common Sense LLC announced today that HTTP, FTP, TELNET, email and other protocols can also be used for piracy.

MPAA has already announced it plans to sue the creators and maintainers of such protocols and its clients. Other associations are expected to follow suit shortly.

Re:BitTorrent 4.0.0 Released

[Anonymous Coward]

Does it still spew popups of that ugly fucker begging for money?