Until now Bram Cohen, the creator of revolutionary filesharing system BitTorrent, has maintained a fairly strong resistance to Hollywood's more litigious tendencies. But, as we're reporting today, he's come to a deal to try and stem piracy.
The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent his website, bittorrent.com, from linking to pirated versions of popular movies available online, effectively frustrating people who search for illegal copies of films.
BitTorrent must remove web links leading to illegal content owned by the seven studios that are members of the Motion Picture Association of America.
The article goes on to suggest that this could be an early move to make BitTorrent a more legitimate outlet for copyrighted material. I'm not so sure, but the sooner the industry wakes up the better.
