Hollywood's Motion Picture Association of America (representing all seven major studios) has offered an olive branch to Bram Cohen's Bittorrent, the P2P network that allows massive files (ie movies) to be exchanged by individuals at a very low cost. Reading between the quite murky lines of the deal, it looks like Hollywood's finest have agreed not to take action against Bittorrent as long as it tries to stop people swapping its products or at least removes them from its search engine. Bittorrent has been downloaded about 50 million times and accounts for a ridiculously large amount of global P2P traffic (30-50%), so it no surprise that the MPAA has acted. But the deal looks fragile to say the least. "Genie"and "bottle" are two words that come to mind as Bittorrent isn't actually owned or controlled by any one body. Btw, if anyone can point me in the direction of MPAA chief Dan Glickman in a BitTorrent T-shirt, I'd be grateful.
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