BitTorrent Search Engine

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[T. Longren: Certified & Decorated] Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen’s popular BitTorrent protocol.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[SiliconValleyWatcher.com] News roundup: BitTorrent searches, the evolution of Sims, IBM's blogging launch and more: SVW recently published a scoop on IBM's blogging initiative, a story that generated a lot of interest and comments. IBM's stance on blogging was later officially released by IBM blogger James Snell. Here's the policy in a nutshell: You're speaking for yourself, not IBM.

[The Digital Music Weblog - digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com _] Monthly News Wrap-up: May 2005: , inventor of Bit Torrent, launched the official BitTorrent search engine, courting the Wrath... playlist sharing. 5/12: The MPAA sued six leading BitTorrent directories specializing in TV shows. 5/... a teacher who gave a lecture about legal file-sharing applications. 5/23: The MPAA blamed BitTorrent

[Kanai.net] Gen Kanai weblog: Bram Cohen & BitTorrent profile: The same as paying $20-$60 a month for cable tv, people might pay $20-$60 a month for access to a video library. The problem which will prevent these solutions is that no one company will have all the world's content meaning that by definition people will be searching to find content not in that system which will lead to more things like BitTorrent and also a solution for finding it all. Once you can find all of it on the non-paid for solution easily no one will even pay the subscription.

[Blog.fybersearch.com] The Search Industry Blog - Official BitTorrent Search Engine: "SAN FRANCISCO -- Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen's popular BitTorrent protocol.

[Torrentocracy.com] torrentocracy - blog - Bram Cohen: Under the hood of BitTorrent: I had planned to make video from it available, but the video I captured somehow got corrupted (boo Panasonic). I salvaged the audio from the video and have released that via a torrent under a creative commons license (with Bram's approval). The audio is a bit low.

[Digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com] Official BitTorrent Search Engine Nearly Ready for Launch - The ...: In a development both stunning in its audacity and perfectly sensible, a new Bittorrent search engine is being readied for launch by the protocol’s inventor, Bram Cohen. Positioned as a legal method of directing users to authorized content, the engine nonetheless is automated, and easily finds unauthorized shared material.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Torrent, DVD Recorder Info

Posted at June 13, 2005 11:57 AM