I find it unfortunate that torrents are automatically classified as pirated material.

The bittorrent protocol is a very efficient way of delivering large files. If we can expand our horizons and stop thinking of movies, it can be used to distribute DVD images of software, large datasets like OpenData, census results, scientific experiments, etc whether or not our connections to the external world (TEAMS, SEACOM, etc) are up or not. 


On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Victor Kapiyo <vkapiyo@gmail.com> wrote:
Michelle,

The challenge with that is that there are many ways of hiding IP's and secondly, ISPs are not bound at least to my knowledge to disclose such information, unless of course it is pertinent to solve a crime. So i guess its gonna be a cat and mouse game for a while.

Victor


On 2 May 2012 13:32, Michelle Tongo <shivumich89@gmail.com> wrote:
@ Victor
I think consumer education has always been there but people ignore the fact that it exists.
But what can work is when Companies make their IP easy to get hold of.

On 2 May 2012 13:27, Michelle Tongo <shivumich89@gmail.com> wrote:

@ Victor
I think consumer education has always been there but people ignore the fact that it exists.
But what can work is when Companies make their IP easy to get hold of.

On 2 May 2012 13:10, Victor Kapiyo <vkapiyo@gmail.com> wrote:
I think that what's needed is consumer education to help people understand the effect of such download sites on copyright etc., and at the same time, a call on the copyright owners to reduce the prices of their products and also to make them readily available so as to reduce the incentives for people to use torrent sites, or better yet find better ways of using P2P sites. While blocking sites such as piratebay may be options, i think such measures need to be balanced with the right of citizens to access information freely, without unnecessary restrictions, since i believe that there is legitimate 'copyright free' information that is transmitted in peer networks.


Victor 


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