Time to take action

[spotslayer]

https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta

Contact ur Senator
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Representative
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml

David

[allix]

Busting someone for using bittorrent to download ubuntu is not going happen. I tend to think that this campaign has no grounding .

[Tsuroerusu]

Busting someone for using bittorrent to download ubuntu is not going happen. I tend to think that this campaign has no grounding .

Try reading it again:

"1. It makes it more difficult to distribute free software: Without file sharing and P2P technologies like BitTorrent, distributing large amounts of free software becomes much harder, and more expensive. BitTorrent is a grassroots protocol that allows everyone to contribute to legally distributing free software."

It's not that you're gonna get busted for downloading Ubuntu, it's that technologies such as BitTorrent could become illegal to develop in the first place. This is the wet dream of the RIAA, MPAA, BSA etc. we can't allow it to ever come close to happening.

[allix]

There is so many non-legal users of bittorrent its just not going happen.

Look at this on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent ... )#Adoption

Adoption

A growing number of individuals and organizations are using BitTorrent to distribute their own or licensed material. Independent adopters report[5] that without using BitTorrent technology, and its dramatically reduced demands on networking hardware and bandwidth, they could not afford to distribute their files.

[edit] Film, video and music

* BitTorrent Inc. has amassed a number of licenses from Hollywood studios for distributing popular content at the company's website.
* Sub Pop Records releases tracks and videos via BitTorrent Inc.[6] to distribute its 1000+ albums. The band Ween uses the website Browntracker.net[7] to distribute free audio and video recordings of live shows. Furthermore, Babyshambles and The Libertines (both bands associated with Pete Doherty) have extensively used torrents to distribute hundreds of demos and live videos.
* Podcasting software is starting to integrate BitTorrent to help podcasters deal with the download demands of their MP3 "radio" programs. Specifically, Juice and Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) support automatic processing of .torrent files from RSS feeds. Similarly, some BitTorrent clients, such as µTorrent, are able to process web feeds and automatically download content found within them.

[edit] Broadcasters

* In 2008 CBC became the first public broadcaster in North America to make a full show (Canada's Next Great Prime Minister) available for download using BitTorrent.[8]
* The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) have since March 2008 experimented with bittorrent distribution from this site. Only selected material in which NRK owns all royalties are published. Responses have been very positive, and NRK is planning to offer more content.

[edit] Personal material

* The Amazon S3 "Simple Storage Service" is a scalable Internet-based storage service with a simple web service interface, equipped with built-in BitTorrent support.
* Blog Torrent offers a simplified BitTorrent tracker to enable bloggers and non-technical users to host a tracker on their site. Blog Torrent also allows visitors to download a "stub" loader, which acts as a BitTorrent client to download the desired file, allowing users without BitTorrent software to use the protocol.[9] This is similar to the concept of a self-extracting archive.

[edit] Software

* Many major open source and free software projects encourage BitTorrent as well as conventional downloads (HTTP, FTP...) of their products to increase availability and reduce load on their own servers, especially when dealing with larger files.

[edit] Games

* Blizzard's World of Warcraft video game uses the BitTorrent protocol to send game updates to clients.
* The game GunZ The Duel has a built-in BitTorrent client.
* Metal Gear Online has a built-in BitTorrent patch and update downloader
* America's Army uses BitTorrent to distribute the game and patches

The RIAA, MPAA, BSA etc is going have a tough time trying to fight that battle.
What they could do is get logs from isps and take action from there on illegal downloading.
But to ban the actual protocol, its just not going happen.

[dann]

They don't have to kill the protocol, they just need to make it illegal to use in those countries signing the act. On a commercial level, companies could expand on a proprietary protocol via some closed client that would perform essentially the same thing under control of the corporations. Thus, commercial entities could continue to distribute in such a manner.

How they would ultimately pull this off, I am not sure. I mean you could then run bit torrent traffic via that port, but I am sure they could still detect the differences.

Horray for distribution battles!

[Tsuroerusu]

They don't have to kill the protocol, they just need to make it illegal to use in those countries signing the act. On a commercial level, companies could expand on a proprietary protocol via some closed client that would perform essentially the same thing under control of the corporations. Thus, commercial entities could continue to distribute in such a manner.

How they would ultimately pull this off, I am not sure. I mean you could then run bit torrent traffic via that port, but I am sure they could still detect the differences.

Horray for distribution battles!

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell