Tuesday, 4 August 2015
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has requested BitTorrent to help curb piracy of its members’ copyrighted content, reports Billboard. In a letter to BitTorrent CEO Eric Kilnker, RIAA’s executive vice president, anti-piracy, Brad Buckles accused the company of being “the source of the software that is used overwhelmingly for infringement.” Buckles noted that BitTorrent’s software “facilitated approximately 75 percent of the over 1.6 million torrent-based infringements of (RIAA) members’ works in the United States upon which a notice was sent in 2014.” The letter includes a list of hashes of files containing RIAA members’ work — spanning artists…
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