Napster clarified how liability. If you control who can search and how it works, you’re liable. If you profit from infringement, worse. Next gen (Grokster) went to Supreme Court. If a company targeted pirate users, they can be tried as liable even if search is decentralized.
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Grokster precedent killed most of file sharing virus. Further litigation clarified things like in-app search. Limewire and Kazaa shipped client-side search filters, but didn’t use them to stop infringement.
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Ever find BitTorrent awkward? Search a sketchy site, download and open some torrent file. Ever notice how screenshots of torrent clients make it look like people use it to torrent Linux and not movies/music? BitTorrent outsourced search liability. Linux is the official use case
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BitTorrent’s outsourcing of search liability and non-piracy narrative insulated it from US threats. The RIAA eliminate torrent website in the jurisdictions that made it easy, leaving us with The Pirate Bay in Sweden
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With legal breathing room the BitTorrent protocol could evolve into a more resilient form. • Magnet URIs make it easier to mirror and archive The Pirate Bay. Metadata becomes totally decentralized • Torrents have multiple trackers independent of TPB. Killing one does nothing
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Before the streaming generation, torrenting was the quickest platform for music to organically (and virally) spread - in my opinion, it actually helped make a lot of careers and break artists. Now torrenting music is dead due to the instant gratification of streaming.
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Yeah agree. The ability to build communities around categories of torrents was a big deal IMO
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