Copyright Enforcement

Over the course of their short history, but this bit torrent tracker sites have been the target of various rates as well as shutdowns that are due to misinformed copyright authorities. The major copyright authorities which are also known as RIAA and MPAA, have gone out of their way to attempt to shut down the various bit torrent tracker websites due to their belief that they are in copyright infringement. This is, not true at all.

The bit torrent files that are in question, are just small metadata files that keep track of information that is not in copyright infringement. This does not stop the various companies from attempting to shut down the websites that are indexing the bit torrents. The actual torrent files, which may or may not contain copyrighted data are maintained on people’s private computers and not on the index site’s server.

Various bit torrent sites have been closed over time, depending on location and due to local laws. Such indexing websites like Finereactor and Supernova, and that the actual owners of the indexing sites lie in court.

Today one of the biggest, bit torrent indexing websites is the Pirate Bay. This website is located in Sweden, where the law specifically states that the torrent files can pay no copyright infringed data and therefore cannot face legal proceedings in any court of law. Matter of fact, this website has gone as far as even posting the various e-mails from the different copyright authorities who have asked them to remove the links from their website. However due to current Swedish law, they are not required to and therefore can maintain their service to the general public.

One of the biggest cases was back in 2005, when a bit torrent tracker indexing website known as EliteTorrents, was shut down by the FBI and various immigration and customs enforcement agencies. Then utilizing a form of entrapment, which is illegal under US law, the FBI and immigrations authorities took over the website as a means to track those who are trying to download copyrighted data through their index.

That have been many companies including a major motion picture authorities, as well as television channels such as HBO that has attempted to shut down the various torrent indexing websites. While some sites have been shut down due to locations such as those who have servers based in the US and other countries, there are those who get looted and shut down for a return to the general public within hours, due to the fact that the indexing websites are not sharing copyrighted data, they are sharing an individual hash by a which is created based on the content within the particular file.

That have also been reports in several countries, where the owners of copyrighted data have utilized in order to press charges against those who download their copyrighted data. But as stated before, these indexing websites do not contain any of the copyrighted data. If there is any data that has been copyrighted such as the release movies, this data and files are kept on private computers instead of the server. When you connect with bit torrent programs, you receive a small file from the indexing websites that tell the program how to connect and who to contact to in order to download that particular file from another private computer.

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