Isolationism

Bram Cohen, creator of the BitTorrent protocol and owner of BitTorrent, Inc., has purchased what is almost unarguably the best Windows-based torrent client, μTorrent.

The move was almost certainly in support of Hollywood’s attempt to stem movie piracy and encourage legitimate uses of the protocol (no doubt through the use of heavy-handed tactics like DRM etc.).

I’m fine with encouraging fair use, but the MPAA and I disagree on what that means (on just about every point on the subject). It probably goes without saying that just about all of μTorrent’s users are understandably more than a little pissed off.

The clowns in Hollywood won this round; they’ve discovered that like themselves, some people out there will do anything if you throw some money their way.