Download With Bittorrent? - Comments Page 4

I was told that I could hide my down loading from sites such as The Pirate Bay & IsoHunt by using a program called PeerGuardian2. Has any one out there checked into this and if so what are your opinions?

Thanks ...

In 1984 the U.S. Supreme Court held that, in Sony v. Universal Studios (the Betamax Case), the potential for copyright infringement was not prima facie evidence of de facto infringement. Essentially, the VCR "became" legal to use. The price of blank tapes plummeted from $14.00 ($30.00 in 2009 dollars) to $1.50 today. No longer were fees being collected for "copyright distribution", a specious claim anyway since it was unknown which programs were being recorded.

As recently as June 2005, the entertainment industry has been suing to overturn the Betamax Case in order to set precedent for other lawsuits concerning P2P technology, and have been chipping away at it, nonetheless.

The legal principle for copyright protection is laudable and noble, but the legal implementation of it has been nothing more than a heavy-handed protection of a mafia-style fiefdom to protect its own profits, using an image of a poor, deprived artist as its poster boy, no more realistic than an artist's rendition of Little Boy Blue.

If the industry were truly concerned with copyright protection for the artists (and itself), then it would embrace and adapt the new technology to its own benefit. But that would require negotiation and a sharing of profits. In the world of the Mafia, nobody gets away with skimming, no matter how small, and the penalty is severe for even thinking about it.

In my opinion, any game over 10 years or older should be able to be downloaded freely.

EDITOR'S NOTE: How about any car over 10 years old... can we steal them too?

If download the torrent file itself from a public place and then do the actually downloading in my house can i be tracked?