Found a good piece about the state of BitTorrent and other filesharing networks, and why the MPAA's decision to go on the offensive and mimic the un-thoughtout actions of the RIAA (and their ever so successful campaign to stop people swapping music) was such a poor one.
As Hollywood is so fond of sequels, it seems perfectly fitting that today's suppression of the leading BitTorrent sites bears an uncanny resemblance to an event which took place in July of 2000. Facing a rising sea of lawsuits and numerous court orders demanding an immediate shutdown, the archetypal peer-to-peer service, Napster, pulled the plug on its own servers, silencing the millions of users who used the service as a central exchange to locate songs to download. That should have been the end of that. But it wasn't. Instead, the number of songs traded on the Internet today dwarfs the number traded in Napster's heyday. The suppression of Napster led to a profusion of alternatives - Gnutella, Kazaa, and BitTorrent.
I guess it really shows where the creativity lies, the only thing the middlemen can do is what the other middlemen have tried and failed doing.
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