"Strong The Torrents Are."

Taken from the press release of MPAA. BitTorrent Founder and CEO Bram Cohen and Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman announced today that the motion picture industry and BitTorrent, Inc. are collaborating with the goal of inhibiting film piracy. Bram Cohen developed a revolutionary technology for websites to make large content files available on the Web and that technology is often used by others illegally to distribute movies and television shows. Today Cohen confirmed BitTorrent, Inc.’s commitment to removing links that direct users to copies of pirated content owned by MPAA companies from its search engine at BitTorrent.com. The announcement today is historic in that two major forces in the technology and film industries have agreed to work together and proactively identify ways to limit access to infringing material available via search engines like the one at BitTorrent.com and to promote constructive innovation in this area. “BitTorrent is an extremely efficient publishing tool and search engine that allows creators and rights holders to make their content available on the Internet securely,” said Cohen. “BitTorrent, Inc. discourages the use of its technology for distributing films without a license to do so. As such, we are pleased to work with the film industry to remove unauthorized content from BitTorrent.com’s search engine.” Cohen said BitTorrent.com will remove links that direct users to pirated content owned by MPAA companies from its search engine. Yeah, right. As if someone out there actually uses the Bittorrent.com's search engine. The Great Age of Piracy are upon us, (hey that sounded just like the opening of the anime "One Piece") and there's no way denying it. For example, the Swedish website, PirateBay.net, which continues to be defiant in the face of legal threats, argues that since it is in Sweden, the DMCA (Digitial Millennium Copyright Act) does not apply to it and is un-enforceable.