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LennonCook · 03-31-2005, 06:45 AM

The spllitting files up so it coems from multiple users isn't a Bittorrent thing. It's a P2P thing.
The thing with BitTorrent is that the "we don't control our users" argument doesn't hold, because for each file there has to be a "tracking server" which keeps a record of all going transfers. In other words, it is possible to identify the initial contributer of an illegal file easily and sue them rather than the entire system. The Wikipedia article says this in a better way than I can manage.

03-31-2005, 06:45 AM	#5
LennonCook Jack Burton Join Date: November 10, 2001 Location: Bathurst & Orange, in constant flux Age: 37 Posts: 5,452	The spllitting files up so it coems from multiple users isn't a Bittorrent thing. It's a P2P thing. The thing with BitTorrent is that the "we don't control our users" argument doesn't hold, because for each file there has to be a "tracking server" which keeps a record of all going transfers. In other words, it is possible to identify the initial contributer of an illegal file easily and sue them rather than the entire system. The Wikipedia article says this in a better way than I can manage.