MPAA Extinguishes SuprNova
Earlier this week, the MPAA started its legal attack against the BitTorrent server operators. The results of the attack are swift, for not even a week has past and Slashdot reports that people have been writing in: “Without providing a reason, both of these sites have shut down: SuprNova.org and TorrentBits.org.”
Suprnova’s demise as a BitTorrent clearing house coincides with increasing legal pressure in America and Europe against P2P-enabled piracy. In the last week the Movie Picture Ass. of America signalled its intention to pursue the P2P server operators in a new front in its war internet movie pirates. Also, a popular BitTorrent site in Finland was raided by police, and an eDonkey site in the Netherlands was raided and shut down.
It is said that the game plan for the MPAA was to go after the illegal users of BitTorrent other than the BitTorrent technology itself. So any guesses where we will be next using BitTorrent? Will BitTorrent survive?
December 20th, 2004 at 4:31 pm
I’ve used BT and think it’s a great piece of technology. I’ve traded exclusively in bootleg concert recordings–and, no, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. What I find so offensive about the war on P2P technologies is that it’s an indiscriminate war. The legitimate sharing is killed right along with the more dubious uses.
The thing is, you’d have to imagine that for hard core traders, there will always be another technology and each one will become less and less centralized so that the industries that object to them will have a harder and harder time finding a target for their lawsuits.
December 21st, 2004 at 12:12 am
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December 21st, 2004 at 6:34 pm
I really like this weblog. I think that if companies would file lawsuits that were reasonable they could hurt the traders more by actually collecting and seeing a case to closure.