The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with Bram Cohen, the designer of peer-to-peer (P2P) software Bit Torrent, to remove links to video content owned by the seven member studios of the MPAA from Bittorrent.com.
Bit Torrent has reportedly been a popular source for downloading pirated movies and other illegal video and audio content. Cohen said that he will be working with the MPAA to remove unlicensed video content from Bit Torrent’s search engine.
The agreement will not stop the exchange of illegal material using Bit Torrent’s free P2P software. Rather, Cohen has agreed to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which stipulates that once a studio or other copyright owner expresses a complaint about an illegal file, Bit Torrent must remove the file in question.
Bit Torrent is a peer-to-peer downloading software that allows the free exchange of a variety of file formats among users. Although Bit Torrent’s format provides users with increased downloading efficiency, it also reportedly makes the entertainment industry’s attempts to identify movie and music pirates more difficult.
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