About Leechers, Seeds and Swarming – The copyright implications of BitTorrent
BitTorrent is a new type of P2P technology with which users download small pieces of a file, and then start uploading these small pieces to each other. This essay analyses whether using BitTorrent amounts to infringement of copyrights or related rights in different European jurisdictions. Although t...
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University of Edinburgh
2005-09-01
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| Series: | SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society |
| Online Access: | http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/vol2-3/torrent.asp |