Vuze is the Palo Alto peer-to-peer indexer that helped bring the net neutrality circus to the FCC with their publicity stunt of a complaint against Comcast. They’ve maintained their business was nothing to do with piracy, and all about innovative delivery of legal content. It turns out it’s mainly piracy after all:
This month, Vuze did an about-face. Unleashing the software’s search engine, it enabled users to find and retrieve content indexed by some of the world’s most popular BitTorrent search engines. These include Mininova, an index site in the Netherlands now under legal assault from Dutch anti-piracy authorities. As a result, users don’t have to fire up a second file-sharing program to find free, pirated versions of the titles Vuze offers on a pay-per-view basis. They can do it through Vuze’s search engine.
Mininova is all about piracy, and if Vuze is searching it, so are they. It can’t be long until Hollywood and the studios terminate their agreements with Vuze and relegate them to their ultimate destiny as the Google of piracy. Except they’ll have lots of fun competition. For one, the reigning Google of piracy is actually Google.
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