bittorrent

"Back in January when The Pirate Bay announced they wanted to buy the micronation of Sealand, they caused quite a stir. Sealand and its native hosting company HavenCo have no copyright regulations making it an attractive target location for the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker.

A site set up to take donations for the cause (buysealand.com, currently moving servers) announced: “With the help of all the kopimists on Internets, we want to buy Sealand. Donate money and you will become a citizen and nobleman. It should be a great place for everybody, with high-speed Internets access, no copyright laws and vip accounts to The Pirate Bay”

Is this the beginning of locking out free platforms such as GNU/Linux from "legal" content? Will the next thing be a proprietary version of BitTorrent? They certainly didn't take a very good direction.

"With the Oscars out of the way, and Martin Scorsese's The Departed as best picture, BitTorrent, which became one with Hollywood back in 2005, says today it becomes 'legal' with DRMd movie rentals available the from four of the Big Six studios, and video, games and software, on board.

It's moved solidly into corporate territory or, as Variety sums it up, "After over a year of negotiations with Hollywood, the biggest name in piracy is going legit."