With Limewire recently being shut down by court order, have all of the P2P clients with substantial copyrighted music trafficking been shut down, or do some remain in full swing? What site, and why have they been able to remian in operation under constant legal pressure from the RIAA and the record labels?
P2P sites for streaming media are still plentiful. If I were so inclined, I could watch most major sporting events from around the globe almost LIVE with such technology.
Record companies posting on forums
to catch transgressors
makes me sad:rolleyes:
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Nope not one bit, its a loosing battle. I can watch streaming video of any tv show I want and download any tv show I want usually even before it airs.
Only the ignorant were still using LimeWire since they started to try and get you to pay for advanced features. The whole thing was ported into another application that is open source. And once you go open source, shutting down the original server does nothing.
Yeah, Limewire was basically a file sharing application for grandparents. Although files can easily be found by bittorrent sites, it is sometimes just as easy to simply do a google search for the name of the album or movie you want, as multiple links are often shown on the first page of search results.
Well there’s nothing illegal about most of the P2P clients.
You can use make use of torrents to download legal files more efficently than direct downloading.
The Japanese P2P clients like Share and Perfect Dark make use of plausible deniability
And of course the Family Circus has already covered this
P2P torrents were also used to spread the encrypted Wikileaks documents. As well as linux distros and some PC manufacturers using P2P to reduce their own bandwidth overheads. P2P is perfectly legal so the clients themselves are safe as far as I can see, it’s the torrent sharing websites that tend to be targeted and shut down as they host files that initiate the downloading of illegal material (though they don’t host the illegal material themselves).
Not one bit. I can listen to any song the mind fancies on youtube, and bittorrent works for the rest. I know Blizzard uses bittorrent to send out patch updates.
And the gnutella network (that Limewire uses) is true P2P in that no external sites are needed. There’s no site to shut down–that was their big appeal back in the day.