{"id":4443,"date":"2008-06-23T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T19:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/vuze-shows-true-colors\/"},"modified":"2008-06-23T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T19:33:10","slug":"vuze-shows-true-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/23\/vuze-shows-true-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Vuze Shows True Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tVuze 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&#8217;ve maintained their business was nothing to do with piracy, and all about innovative delivery of legal content. It turns out it&#8217;s mainly <a href=\"http:\/\/opinion.latimes.com\/bitplayer\/2008\/06\/expanding-the-v.html\">piracy after all:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This month, Vuze did an about-face. Unleashing the software&#8217;s search engine, it enabled users to find and retrieve content indexed by some of the world&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s search engine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mininova is all about piracy, and if Vuze is searching it, so are they. It can&#8217;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&#8217;ll have lots of fun competition. For one, the reigning Google of piracy is actually Google.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/net+neutrality\" rel=\"tag\">net+neutrality<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve maintained their business was nothing to do with piracy, and all about innovative delivery of legal content. It turns out it&#8217;s mainly piracy after all: This month, Vuze &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/23\/vuze-shows-true-colors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vuze Shows True Colors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality","tag-netneutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-19F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}