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November 25, 2005

BitTorrent, Hollywood Reach Piracy Deal

This seems like a reasonable approach to a troubling issue:

BetaNews | BitTorrent, Hollywood Reach Piracy Deal

BitTorrent and the MPAA struck a deal on Tuesday that may prevent future legal action against the file sharing network, and will make it tougher for users to find feature films through the service.

In May, Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, introduced technology that allowed users to search the Internet for Torrent files. A good deal of the content found was legal, the company claims, but searches also found copyrighted material, such as movies and television shows.

Under the terms of the deal, Cohen will add technology to the search engine used by bittorrent.com that would effectively remove content owned by the studios that make up the MPAA.

Posted by Douglas Sorocco at 12:10 PM.
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