Comments on: LokiTorrent is going to fight http://tcal.net/archives/2004/12/31/lokitorrent-is-going-to-fight/ An Irish Community weblog about everything Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:08:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: dave http://tcal.net/archives/2004/12/31/lokitorrent-is-going-to-fight/#comment-538 Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:46:46 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2004/12/31/lokitorrent-is-going-to-fight/#comment-538 I agree with you to a point, but what about Google? If I put filetype:torrent ahead of a search term, I can find copyrighted content - Google is clearly assisting people in breaking the law there. Should it's filetype search capability be disabled? How far is a web site responsible for the content that is submitted to it or it indexes? The various torrent sites also disseminated game patches, demos, movie trailers - all legal. I'm not defending them, I'm just pointing out that they had substantial non-infringing uses as well as the obvious law breaking uses. So it's possible they could have the betamax defense, but unlikely, given the current climate. The MPAA/RIAA who shut down these services are just shooting themselves in the foot. They could have used the centralised structure of the torrent sites to at least experiment with new business models - instead they've pushed them offline, forcing innovation in the form of eXeem etc. I agree with you to a point, but what about Google? If I put filetype:torrent ahead of a search term, I can find copyrighted content - Google is clearly assisting people in breaking the law there. Should it’s filetype search capability be disabled? How far is a web site responsible for the content that is submitted to it or it indexes? The various torrent sites also disseminated game patches, demos, movie trailers - all legal. I’m not defending them, I’m just pointing out that they had substantial non-infringing uses as well as the obvious law breaking uses. So it’s possible they could have the betamax defense, but unlikely, given the current climate. The MPAA/RIAA who shut down these services are just shooting themselves in the foot. They could have used the centralised structure of the torrent sites to at least experiment with new business models - instead they’ve pushed them offline, forcing innovation in the form of eXeem etc.

]]> by: James http://tcal.net/archives/2004/12/31/lokitorrent-is-going-to-fight/#comment-537 Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:35:36 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2004/12/31/lokitorrent-is-going-to-fight/#comment-537 The highways department has roads that everyone uses for all sorts of reasons, mostly legal. The torrent sites being shut down are purely there to assist with breaking the law. I can't believe the people hosting them didn't work out that assisting people in breaking the law, is foolish to say the least. The highways department has roads that everyone uses for all sorts of reasons, mostly legal. The torrent sites being shut down are purely there to assist with breaking the law.

I can’t believe the people hosting them didn’t work out that assisting people in breaking the law, is foolish to say the least.

]]> by: » Lokitorrent gone The Community At Large http://tcal.net/archives/2004/12/31/lokitorrent-is-going-to-fight/#comment-758 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://tcal.net/archives/2004/12/31/lokitorrent-is-going-to-fight/#comment-758 [...] om/"> Take a look at lokitorrent.</a> Are they still mounting the legal defence? (previous <a href="http://tcal.net/archives/2004/12/31/lokitorrent-is-going-to-fight/">posts</a>.) Seems like the site is dead. Story at the register. [...] […] om/”> Take a look at lokitorrent. Are they still mounting the legal defence? (previous posts.) Seems like the site is dead. Story at the register. […]

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