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The company behind BitTorrent — software that’s been widely used to distribute illegal copies of movies and games — is trying to turn it into a Hollywood player, including business deals with the entertainment industry. Recently its top executives flew to Burbank, Calif., for high-level talks with the Motion Picture Association of America.

They want to make BitTorrent force content filtering on its users. I don’t see how that’s ever going to happen, and it just shows how naive the RIAA/MPAA still are. I think this might be just a business talk to maybe try to influence the makers to backing off rather than trying to find a way to use the technology, but we will see. Or is this really a move to acquire the BitTorrent technology, come up with a strategy, and then proceed to shut it all down…?

Maybe they will use BT to move movies and TV to setTopBoxes over the net. It would prove a functional way to distribute large content esp. If you could see it as it comes down.

On the other hand, I see it as more of a way to lessen their financial burden by piggy-backing on users bandwidth, rather than supplying it all themselves. So basically we pay for a movie/song and then the companies selling them just collect the money, rather than having to pay for terrabits of bandwidth per day.

TVIP is the wave of the future. This way, people’s outlooks on filesharing software, mainly bit torrent, will be changed in a positive way because it would be very useful and legal.

This mental block the Industry is having reminded me of Cory Doctorow’s book “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”. They have quite the dilemma on their hands when financial threats no longer deter suspected n’er-do-wells.

Interesting how such a seemingly minor editorial cleanup of a story makes it far less credible. Anyway, here is another link (hopefully doesn’t have popups or spyware but I can’t tell since I have firefox on gnu/linux):

Now it may be inevitable that someone will fork the source code to ensure there is no filtering or tracking of proprietary content being traded via BitTorrent.