Cancel Cable : How Internet Pirates Get Free Stuff by Chris Fehily

Author:Chris Fehily
Language: ru
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Internet, Computers, General
ISBN: 9780978590765
Publisher: Questing Vole Press
Published: 2011-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

Links to Torrents

Parties on all sides throw around terms like “BitTorrent website” and “linking” without defining them precisely. Copyright holders and their minions use these terms in the broadest sense, where simply linking to torrents is no different from providing copyrighted material. But most of the sites mentioned in this chapter are search engines that don’t host their own tracker and consequently don’t provide pirated content. Their search results are no different from Google’s except that they’re restricted to torrents. Lawyers go after small fish because that’s who they can shut down. They haven’t sued Google because presumably even American courts wouldn’t hold Google (or Bing or Yahoo) criminally liable for every search result.

In the US, Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has, by using fatuous legal arguments at the behest of private interests, seized the domain names (web addresses) of several BitTorrent search engines that don’t host content. These seizures won’t affect piracy but they will skunk the .com top-level domain. BitTorrent search engines and other fringe businesses will migrate to domains perceived to be outside of US control. Demonoid.com, for example, is now Demonoid.me (the “me” stands for Montenegro).

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