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	WARNER MAKES PEACE WITH FILE-SHARING SITE May 9 2006
	Using a good old if-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em strategy, Warner Bros. announced Monday that it will use BitTorrent's (more)
	STUDIOS MAY MAKE PEACE WITH FILE-SHARING SITES Nov 23 2005
	Hollywood, which has been waging a costly but thus far unproductive war against file-sharing sites, (more)
	BITTORRENT WEBSITES CALL IT A DAY Dec 21 2004
	Rather than face a costly legal battle with the major film studios, several websites that (more)

BITTORRENT GOING LEGIT
Monday, February 26 2007

BitTorrent, a name that has become anathema to the major movie studios, which have accused it of facilitating Internet piracy, plans to launch the BitTorrent Entertainment Network that will sell legal downloads of films and TV shows from Warner Bros., Paramount, 20th Century Fox, MGM, and Lionsgate, the Associated Press reported today (Monday). Users will be able to rent new movies for $3.99, older ones for $2.99, and TV shows for $1.99. They can be viewed within a 24-hour period. Unlike the bootleg versions, the ones from the studios cannot be burned onto DVDs. Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent told the A.P. that the studios had demanded BitTorrent charge prices for permanent downloads that the web service thought were too high. Navin told A.P.: "We need to give [customers] a price that feels like a good value relative to what they were getting for free."

BITTORRENT GOES LEGIT
Wednesday, November 29 2006
Paramount, Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox are expected to join Warner Bros. in providing movies over the Internet via BitTorrent, the video web service that they once universally scorned, the Los Angeles Times Times reported today (Wednesday). As part of the deal, BitTorrent has agreed to use filtering software to prevent pirated content from going out over its service. However, the newspaper indicated, analysts generally believe that the switch-over from an outlet for pirated versions (more)

HONG KONG JUDGE TIGHTENS UP ON CENSORHIP
Wednesday, May 10 2006
Three Hong Kong film companies have obtained a court order demanding that four of the island's Internet service providers identify 49 customers suspected of using the BitTorrent file-sharing site to download movies. Hong Kong news reports said that the move represents the first time that local filmmakers had joined in taking legal action against movie pirates. The ISPs have 21 days in which to provide the names, mailing addresses and IP addresses of the alleged (more)