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BitTorrent to crack down on use of name (ZDNet)
ZDNet reports
that the creators of the BitTorrent file-swapping application will be
cracking down on how other software developers use the name.
"BitTorrent's speedy downloading features has made it one of the most
popular tools online for distributing large files such as movies or
software, both legally and illegally. The company is trying to turn its
own Web site into a hub for distributing movies legally, and has been in
close discussions with Hollywood studios for months."
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BitTorrent to crack down on use of name (ZDNet) Posted Feb 7, 2006 23:26 UTC (Tue) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link] Isn't BitTorrent also the name of the protocol? Are we going to see the same issues we had with SSH a while back?
Definitively Posted Feb 8, 2006 11:12 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link] From now on, I will call it "the BT protocol". Bram definitively sold out.But I have seen it coming when he relicensed BT under a non-free license.
BitTorrent license freedom Posted Feb 8, 2006 14:55 UTC (Wed) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] What is non-free about the new BitTorrent license? It is a descendent of the Jabber Open Source Licence v1.0, which the FSF lists as "free, GPL-incompatible":
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/
What changes did BitTorrent make to the license that render it non-free?
BitTorrent license freedom Posted Feb 9, 2006 15:38 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link] > What is non-free about the new BitTorrent license? It is a descendent ofthe Jabber Open Source Licence v1.0, which the FSF lists as "free, GPL-incompatible" IIRC, there were two problems with the license: (1) the choice-of-venue clause and (2) the "keep source online for a year" problem. I don't know if the license changed since those two problems were detected.
Definitively Posted Feb 8, 2006 17:33 UTC (Wed) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link] BT is (fairly) widely understood to mean British Telecom, who have beenknow to be stroppy about their trademarks in the past.
Definitively Posted Feb 10, 2006 8:36 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] "sold out"?
You have to be joking. Seriously, this is very int
Bittorrent is a trademark, other people are using the trademark to trick people to installing viruses, addware, spyware, and other nasties...
There is a nasty thing about trademarks.. You have to keep it 'pure', that is if you let people use it that don't license it then you LOOSE your trademark. It becomes invalid if you pick and choose who to go after.
This is the same reason why Linux is trademarked, and this is the same reason why Redhat had to go after people like CentOS for saying it's based on Redhat.
It is not intellectual property, that's a BS term. It's not about copyrights (those are yours irregardless), and it's not about patents (those are yours irregardless who you go after and weither or not it's your work they are using).
You have to actively protect your trademark, otherwise it ceases to become a trademark.
Or would you rather that your mom or friend google's for 'bittorrent' and downloads the 'bittorrent installer' and get DRM installed? Because that's exactly what is going to happen otherwise.
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