Filesharing Review > Has Pirate Bay Sold Out the BitTorrent Community?

Zeropaid.com - File Sharing Software, Information & Newshttp://www.zeropaid.com [Zeropaid.com - File Sharing Software, Information & News] I think the future looks pretty grim for the BitTorrent community if we continue to patronize PAYING torrent sites, or even those whose revenues are seemingly out of touch with the reality of their services. I know a guy has to make too, but do you think it really makes the BT community look good if guys are making huge profits off of stuff that isn't even theirs?

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Battleangel.orghttp://battleangel.org [Battleangel.org] Battleangel: India is fast turning into one of the world's development powerhouses, and they're getting there by challenging the idea that they should have western-style copyright and patent rules (the US spent its first century as a "pirate nation" that didn't honor foreign copyrights and patents). This marks a decisive moment in Indian history: the US, Europe, and other nations' IT industries are crippled by the need to pay monopoly rents to patent-crooks like Acacia;

[RatcliffeBlog””Mitch's Open Notebook] The war of the middle against the ends: They do this by, among other things, making proprietary protocols mandatory, working to prevent alternative local access such as municipal Wi-Fi and collaborating with other major industries—Hollywood and big media—to enforce end-to-end systems customers must buy and use with no choice. For example, as ZDNet's David Berlind wrote recently, "As if it isn't bad enough that certain Congresspeople are looking to stifle fair use rights with broadcast flag related legislation, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) are pushing two other fair-use rights limiting bills on Congress."

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