small victory

The creators of the BitTorrent-only movie The Tunnel are celebrating today. After being refused an IMDb listing on several occasions, the makers wrote an open letter to the Amazon-owned company which was featured in dozens of news articles.

Millions of BitTorrent users all around the world followed the Pirate Bay trial with great interest last year.

Many had hoped that the court would decide that operating a BitTorrent tracker was no offense and that the defendants would walk free.

You might be wondering what’s new here; after all, Google has been blurring street view imagery containing potentially sensitive data like faces and license plates, on request, for quite a while now.