Legitimate use, open source, keep BitTorrent out of court

Posted by dave on Mar 8, 2005 10:30 AM EDT
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) took down the Loki Torrent Web site last month, but the open source technology known as BitTorrent -- used by Loki Torrent for free, unlicensed file sharing -- is not a target of the movie industry or other content owners, largely because of its legitimate uses, but also, according to legal experts, because it is open source software.

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