September 26, 2006

DRM Bad for Bittorrent

BroadBandReports.com reported yesterday about Ashwin Navin's, President of Bit Torrent, interview with IDG News Service. Ashwin states what has been obvious to us all for years, DRM is bad for BitTorrent! Duh?!

The interview goes on to talk about steps that Bit Torrent is taking to legitimize the industry. Talking on such topics as cacheing torrents and working with ISP's to NOT throttle the protocol.

I think this is exactly what Shawn refers to as the Pyramid of Piracy.

Filed under P2P by cldnails

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