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Bittorrent
By Justin Nahin
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What is it?
• Bittorrent is a file sharing program built to help individual share files or programs.
• It is owned by the company, Bittorrent.
• It is a program that has been involved in multiple court cases and lawsuits.
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Why was this Chosen?
• I’ve used the program in the past and have some knowledge of it.
• I’ve been curious of this programs origins.
• This program is considered to be illegal by some.
• Is this program
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The Company
• The company was made in 2004 by Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin.
• The company is located at San Francisco, Califonia 612 Howard St.
• The company produced the program in an effort to allow users to send files and information over long distance and in easy to access locations.
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How does it work?
• The program works by having one person who has to program or file hosted to have others download off their file, called seeding.
• Many people obtain the program or file by getting pieces and parts of it, called leaching.
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What is it used for?
• The program is used by some companies to transfer large business files.
• This program can allow faster downloading of some free programs or files.
• The main one which is a legal issue is piracy, downloading copyrighted music or movies
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Conflict• Many movie industries have
gone after individuals who downloaded or hosted download of the movie illegally.
• The program is claimed to be the reason for people to be able to download illegally.
• Many people believe the program has non-illegal uses, despite the bad reputation.
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Court Cases• TorrentSpy a common search
site for bittorent was brought down during a case in 2007 for destroying evidense.
• Chan Nai-ming a man in Hong Kong was placed on trial for sharing the movie, “Daredevil” in April 2005.
• HBO has distributed cease and desist order towards Bittorrent providers in 2007.
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Outside of the USA
• As mentioned before China has cracked down on file sharing.
• Finland had many administrators and moderators of a Bittorrent website arrested for running the website.
• The Pirate Bay an anti-copyright group originated in Sweden were raided by Swedish police.
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Is this Hate Justified?
• The program has been used multiple times for the use of Piracy.
• Many lawsuits have occurred from it’s usage.
• The program was originated to help send large files over long distances.
• It’s dependent on the what the user uses it for.
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Good it is used for
• This program has been used by many businesses to send large files to it’s employees.
• The program is fast for sending large files across the internet by having the program obtain pieces from many sources.
• It helps many people obtain files or programs that are difficult to obtain.
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Economic Pros
• This program has helped create jobs within the Bittorrent company.
• The company is a million dollar corperation.
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Summary
• The program was created to help send large files.
• It has been the main focus of many court cases and criminal investigations on copyright infringement.
• The program is still used for good purposes despite the bad rap the program has gotten.
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In Conclusion• The program itself is not the
evil in these cases, it’s the users using a tool for bad reasons.
• The program like any tool can be used for good or bad.
• Will this program appear in court cases to come?
• I would recommend other programs like Zune or I-tunes to be used to find movies as the legal issues are nonexistent.
• Remember to be responsible with the tools you are given.
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