If you’ve been living under a rock lately (the past month) you might have missed the fact that The Pirate Bay has been on trial in Sweden for Copy Right infringement. The Pirate Bay trial brings up some interesting questions, but perhaps the one thats most important to my is whether or not a Bittorrent Tracker should be responsible for the content that is being tracked.

For instance, I run Linuxtracker.org one of the largest Linux Torrent Trackers on line. We do not host any distributions. We do not provide the actual iso’s or zip files for download from our server, we merely host the torrent files that allow people to connect to one another for sharing and downloading the files. Another interesting thing is that Recording Industry Associations across europe are beginning to pressure ISP (Internet Service Providers) in to blocking the Bittorrent protocol and other file sharing protocols on their networks.

This could be a bad thing for Linuxtracker and other Legitimate torrent sites like the The Norwegian State TV which is launching their own tracker to serve up their shows (which is a really cool move). I haven’t run across anyone completely blocking the torrent protocol yet, but if I do, I’ll be sure to post it.

I’m curious though, how many people are grabbing their shows/music/movies/apps via torrent as opposed to watching them in Hulu, the channel’s site or buying them outright? I tend to grab shows, but I’ve stopped downloading movies, I have little time to watch DVD’s, let alone movies I have to wait to download and as most of the work on my computer is done on a work laptop, I tend to buy my software as well…. what about you?

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