Wired News: A Torrent or a Trickle?
> Hollywood’s copyright police and the maker of the most potent movie piracy software of all time took the stage here Tuesday and solemnly declared détente.
> It’s all but certain the deal between the Motion Picture Association of America and BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen won’t dent the file-swapping epidemic, let alone stop it.
Bram Cohen, creator of the BitTorrent protocol has agreed to remove all copyrighted movies from his BitTorrent search-engine. I have a hunch it won’t do much, if anything at all. I for one never use the search engine, as it mostly returns links to torrents long expired and deleted.
If Cohen would go so far as to try and break the torrent protocol, he wouldn’t get very far as the source is out there, and people would just stop using his client and instead pick one that worked like it used to.
Torrents are here to stay, at least until something newer and better shows up.
