SuprNova Ain't So Super Anymore
There’s a P2P program called BitTorrent that’s been catching the eye of anti-piracy folks for at least a year now. I’ve been saying for a long time (to anyone who’d listen) that the real villains aren’t the ethics-neutral P2P applications like BitTorrent, but rather the folks who facilitate the illegal downloading of copyrighted material through the P2P apps.
In other words, if you have a piracy problem, don’t go after the ship-builders. Go after the people saying “Arrr” who are misusing the ships.
Recently, the MPAA seemed to realize that the game had changed and began threatening to sue sites that listed pirated movies for download via BT. The worst of the bunch was SuprNova.
If you go to SuprNova now, you’ll see what kind of cowardly dogs they be.
Way to go, Dan Glickman. For all of the strife between writers and studios, it’s nice to be reminded that we’re all in this together.
Yeah, that always seemed like the strange thing about BitTorrent to me - without the torrent authenticating file and a server to connect you to other users, it’s worthless. I can’t figure out why it’s jumping in popularity - I know its speed and load sharing is efficient, but all centralized piracy systems (like Napster 1.0) seem DOA.