Note: This post deals with Torrent philosophy. If you are looking for actual Torrents, click here.
Outragedmoderates.org has created a bittorrent of the legal briefs filed in the Grokster case.
The easy responses here are (1) that's cool or (2) what's a torrent?
To attack #2 quickly I can point you to this introduction and this FAQ. I will also one sentence it by saying that BitTorrent is a system that allows you to easily create documents that you can share with people all over the internet.
To discuss #1, the creation of things like this is rapidly being taken for granted - to such an extent that when these things are announced people tend to use them less than when they were novel.
But Torrents are under attack with the rest of the peer-to-peer services by people who believe that these services are stealing revenue from them. So much has been said about this that I would invite readers to do a few google searches and read what is out there. There's no need for me to go over that again here.
I would urge people to make use of the torrent and the resource. It seems clear that even just activity surrounding this one file of legal briefs has clear relevance to the case. The entertainment industry intends to show that the peer to peer systems have no value except to exploit and steal copyrighted material. Simply accessing the Grokster brief torrent shows that to be untrue.
In this case, downloading is legal poetry.
Are you looking for specific Torrents? See this post from December 2006 to help you find them.
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