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   If not for movies, then what?

   

   Bystander, Jan 20th, 2005 @ 3:46am

   
   

   I don't know a single person who has used file-sharing services for anything other than downloading movies, music, and the odd funny video.
   
   I am not saying it doesn't happen, but lets be realistic. If more people use a tool for copyright infringement, then watch for that tool to be restricted, or outlawed.
   
   Try to go buy a bong, and explain that you really do have a legal use for it. Yeah sure...

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   Re: If not for movies, then what?

   

   Tim, Jan 20th, 2005 @ 6:08am

   
   

   I've long-since said that the way to thwart this kind of thing is to flood people's mind-space with legal alternatives. I can and *do* use bittorrent for pulling ISOs of linux distributions, for example. We do need more examples of legitimate use of protocols and file-formats to expose this ludicrosity.

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   Re: If not for movies, then what?

   

   DV Henkel-Wallace, Jan 20th, 2005 @ 9:12am

   
   

   I don't know a single person who has used file-sharing services for anything other than downloading movies, music, and the odd funny video.

   Give me a call and get aquainted. I've only used bittorrent for Linux distros. Other than that I've only used FTP to get software. I'm not sure I would know how to find a film to download, much less how to view it.

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   Loraan, Jan 20th, 2005 @ 9:32am

   
   

   I use Bittorrent to share copies of my music, live recordings of local bands (that I've made with the bands' permission), and ripped copies of albums that are no longer commercially available (with the bands' permission). Bittorrent means that people can download the large files without worrying if their transfer gets interrupted. Unfortunately, there aren't enough seeds (other than me) to realize Bittorrent's bandwidth advantages.

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   Outlawing technology

   

   King Silly, Jan 20th, 2005 @ 9:37am

   
   

   It is foolish to try to outlaw a technology, because of a mis-use of it, or a mis-application of it.
   
   Shoul we outlaw machine lathes, because they are used in the production of machine guns, which are a restricted weapon in Canada?
   
   Why don't we go a step further and outlaw the practice of making a connection between two IP addresses.
   
   It is stupid, and I just wish they would all shut up.

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   Anonymous Coward, Jan 20th, 2005 @ 10:51am

   
   

   You forgot poverty! Everyone always forgets about our success with the War on Poverty: there's no more poor people, uh, hang on a sec...

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