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The Pirate Bay, the famous torrent Swedish website, may affect BitTorrent programme by developing a new software standard for Internet downloads.
According to Peter Sunde, Pirate Bay's co-founder, the site might have a new, more open alternative of file-sharing software at the beginning of next year. In his opinion, BitTorrent might develop in the future some features discouraging the trade of some "pirated materials" which might affect very many users of the site. There are also fears that BitTorrent may gain total control over P2P traffic which led to the creation of a working group that will build an open protocol that could be further developed by anyone without being controlled by anybody. The working group has also in view the development of technical improvements to the current file-sharing methods including the optimisation of upload bandwidth and the increasing of the user privacy degree.
BitTorrent's deal with Brightcove, a web distributor of video for CBS, News Corp's Fox Entertainment Group, Viacom, and New York Times can indeed be seen as a threat as commented Eric Garland, chief executive of BigChampagne, a company tracking file sharing. "Future development (of BitTorrent software) will almost certainly be focused on things that do not benefit or further the aims of the pirate" he said.
In its turn, BitTorrent does not feel threatened by Pirate Bay's intentions. "We are not really disappointed here," declared Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent who added: "The pirate community has never paid us a dime."
NetzpolitikTV - Interview with Peter from ThePirateBay.org. (29.10.2007)
http://netzpolitik.org/2007/netzpolitiktv-026-the-pirate-bay/
File-sharing pirates attempt new software standard (7.11.2007)
http://www.news.com/2100-1032_3-6217386.html
BitTorrent to be killed by Pirate Bay plans? (31.10.2007)
http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and-broadband/news/bittorrent...