Recently we have seen the folks at the Pirate Bay declare that they are likely to want to break away from the direction that the bit torrent community is being lead by the technology inventors company.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0640228720071106?rpc=401&A Swedish Web site that promotes trading of pirated movies is developing a new software standard for Internet downloads in a move that could make it easier to swap media files.
But BitTorrent has seen some long-awaited success in working with major media companies, and as its ties with the industry grow, it might add features to discourage trading pirated materials, said Pirate Bay's co-founder, Peter Sunde.
"If they go and do something stupid, it will affect a lot of people," Sunde said in an interview, noting the site gets 1.5 million visitors on a typical day.
He said he hopes to have the first version of the software ready early next year and has asked for developers to pitch in at Web site http://securep2p.com.
BitTorrent says it has little to lose.
"We are not really disappointed here," Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent, told Reuters. "The pirate community has never paid us a dime."
I am suprised that Mr Navin above is talking like anyone even owes him a dime, the bit torrent protocol is open and free to all to utilise despite the inventors company trying to strong arm developers to follow their set of "guidlines" to get a complaince certificate, this is like saying you should pay for an open src code project, with this type of halfwitted company president I,m sure things will be for the better if a new protocol is agreed upon that takes many good ideas and places them together in this new project.
The media companies will continue to try to buy out any company that they think gives them a ready made market to monetise and the anti-corporate greed folks will cotinue to show them it takes brain-power not hard cash to get things done properly.
