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zButterfly torrent client focuses on current movie releases
This is certainly going to draw angry reactions (and probably lawsuits) from the movie industry, but ZButterfly's creators think they have a solid defense. It's the old, "We're just a search engine. We don't actually host any files" defense. That'll be interesting, especially when there aren't even .torrent files hosted by zButterfly.
[via TorrentFreak]
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Subscribe to commentsmer2329Nov 19th 2010 4:11PM
looks like vuze that is stripped down and re-skinned
swskepticNov 19th 2010 5:43PM
Because it is. They might use that "we only link to torrents" defense, but if this COICA bill ever passes, that would be an entirely different story.
kojo87Nov 19th 2010 4:45PM
the MPAA has to love this. this will either be huge or completely fail in a couple months.
FredNov 19th 2010 5:36PM
They love it! It's a one stop shop for detecting uploaders.
FredNov 19th 2010 5:35PM
There is a safe harbor provision in the DMCA for being 'just a search engine' but their obvious FOCUS on illegal downloading I think will sink them. This is how The Pirate Bay is still around, but they don't FOCUS on illegal material, they are content agnostic.
IMTDbNov 20th 2010 10:20AM
OK I checked the sources available on sourceforge.
They modified Azureus to point the adresses of the Vuze content network to point to zbutterfly.com
Besides that there is not so much addition to the software. OH WAIT ? What is this “MiscUtils” source they added ? Let’s take a look at the functions it provide :
public static String getSerialNumber(String drive)
public static String getMotherboardSN()
public static String getMAC()
WTF ??!! Why does a bittorrent software need my Hard drive serial number, my motherboard serial number or my MAC adress ???? Vuze worked very well without these informations…
Seriously, don’t touch this crap.
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