BitTorrent Inc, the company that maintains development of the popular peer-to-peer filesharing protocol, is tired of its technology being associated with piracy. Specifically, it's lashing out against reports that HBO's Game of Thrones has set a "BitTorrent Piracy Record" after millions of illegal downloads. "We don’t host infringing content. We don’t point to it," reads the post by Matt Mason, BitTorrent's VP of marketing. He goes on to emphasize that it's "literally impossible to 'illegally download something on BitTorrent.'"
Piracy, he insists, takes place outside of BitTorrent's ecosystem. "To pirate stuff, you need more than a protocol. You need search, a pirate content site, and a content manager. We offer none of those...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/25/4464232/bittorrent-lashes-out-game-of-thrones-piracy-myth
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