The companies argued that Grokster enables people to trade music and video files of copyrighted content and that the file-sharing software "assists and facilitates" copyright infringement.
BitTorrent made a somewhat notorious name for itself early on as a creator of services that could be used for people to share files of premium content illegally — that is, download and use digital files of films, music, games and so on without paying for them.
"While Blu-ray discs, offering both 25GB and 50GB, are sufficient for users' current demands, we envision the need for a technology that can support far greater capacities as HD streaming in particular becomes commonplace and users build larger files of digital content.
- Thanks to their rewards program for loyal uploaders, they paid out 55k to a user who had 5,845 files of Vietnamese content, at least 10 DVD rips, some porn, and (what looked like) an Italian TV series.
As YouTube notes in its update today, more than 3,000 content owners have supplied about 500,000 hours of reference files for Content ID so far.
To avoid undesirable content in the search indexes, you can program spiders to not crawl (or essentially leak) certain files or pieces of content through the standard robots.txt file in the root directory of your domain.
This is a free, open-source solution and essentially pulls out an MPEG-4 file of your content for Windows.
If you don't know how to get content onto your hard drive, I'm not about to teach you how to download or even show you how to find torrent files of your favorite content.
A related approach is adopted by the file managers of recent operating systems, which show small images of file content instead of classic icons whose appearances are determined by filename extensions.
