Variety has announced that after a year of negotiations with Hollywood, the well-known piracy site BitTorrent is going legal. Having gained the support and content for television shows, movies and video games the site is set to compete with the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon among others. The popularity of the website already gives the service a headstart in competition though.
The parent company Netco is hoping that current and former users of this service will help spread support for the new legal downloading. Even with this change, pirates will still be pirates. It seems strange that with all the sites and communities for illegal downloads that creating new and transforming established sites will change the mindset. If someone wants to get an illegal copy, they're gonna get it. But, the hope is that with more and more legal download sites the prices will be driven down and the cost will be less a deterent for piracy.
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I can't wait to see the result of this bittorrent development! I think they just wanted to get in on the legit side before any more lawsuits came up.
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