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Idiot hosting company thinks using BitTorrent infringes copyright
Shawn sez, "I just posted this defense of Bit Torrent on my personal journal
after receiving a C&D letter from my webhosting service demanding I stop
sharing 'copyrighted' material, even though it's made very clear on my site
that the files I host on my Blog Torrent install are my own creations (well,
me and my friends, but they're all cool with it). The file in question is a
short documentary about Booth Babes my wife and I made and posted on our
site back in 2001, and the file that tipped them off was generated by my
test install of Broadcast Machine (which has been mysteriously not working
on my server)."
I don't want them to turn off my websites. And this is not any kind of
civil disobedience, which would involve breaking a law. I'm just uploading
my files to the Internet and trying out some technologies to facilitate this
with the lowest demand on my webserver. If hosting companies apply some kind
of blanket filter against .torrent files, that will seriously limit our
ability to share media and content. It is completely unacceptable for web
servers to do this kind of unmonitored regulation and threatening. What if I
had been on vacation, couldn't respond, and they shut down my site in a
week?
The hosting company in question is 1and1. Their phone number is
1-877-GO-1AND1. The main email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Link Updated Link
(Thanks, Shawn!)
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/03/idiot_hosting_compan.html
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