A very popular way to share files online is through bit-torenting sites. With bit-torrents you download parts of a file from a set of computers who have the same file. It's a very fast and efficient way of downloading files. However for it to work a multitude of computers must have the file and allow streaming of that file.This is under scrutiny by companies because only one person needs to buy their software for everyone to have it. They intimidate people into not sharing files by suing small families for large sums of money. A family's son was sued for downloading 12 songs off a bit torrent site and was successfully sued for 645,000 dollars. If he had bought the songs he would have paid 12 dollars. This Disgusting practice has become common over the past few years to where is some small businesses whole business plan.The reality of it is that these bit torrent sites help companies more than they hurt them. Heck they even add jobs to the market, as mentioned in Utorrents Blog, " For the past few months our engineers have been hard at work developing a mobile BitTorrent app that is worthy of the name “µTorrent.” In order to live up to our high standards, we knew that the app would need to be fast, lightweight, powerful and better than anything else currently on the market." Thanks to bit-torrent sites company products get far more recognition than they would have if they weren't on these sites. If people like a product they will pay for that product. What these companies are doing to small familys is both wrong and immoral. The music and movie industry are huge perpetrators in this now common act of suing. I still fail to see how a movie downloaded for 20 dollars is suddenly worth 2 million if it's torrented.
Utorrents blog:
http://blog.utorrent.com/
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