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The power of BitTorrent can’t be ignored. Software like Limewire and Morpheus has its place, but with BitTorrent, there is so much more that users can do. Whereas in the past, the idea of downloading full-length movies or TV shows seemed like science fiction, with BitTorrent, Internet users are only restricted by the sizes of their hard drives.

BitTorrent was originally developed by BitTorrent Inc. The original BitTorrent was the first software to utilize the BitTorrent protocol. In December 2006, BitTorrent Inc acquired what is arguably the best BitTorrent client around: µTorrent.

Although when it first landed, BitTorrent technology was a bit out there, subsequent developments have meant that it is much more user friendly and easy to use by anybody with an Internet connection.

While many are quick to criticize BitTorrent for giving users access to illegal files, the amount of legal content is increasing daily. BitTorrent traffic accounts for about half the traffic of the entire Internet, so the phenomenon isn’t going to go away any time soon.

The way BitTorrent technology works is simple. Users “seed” content and make it available to a network of other users, who are then able to download little bits of the content from the seeders. The more seeders, the faster and easier the download. Big files can be broken down into small chunks.

Legal-content sites for BitTorrent users include Azureus.com, BitTorrent.com and Vudu.com – and the list is expanding daily.

Other websites, such as The Pirate Bay and Mininova, offers endless access to content both legal and illegal — it’s up to you to decide how responsibly your downloading with BitTorrent will be.

Technology exists now so that any TV show you can think of, any movie you can imagine or any song you can remember is there for you to download with BitTorrent. You can even download computer software using BitTorrent. The possibilities are endless.

The real issue at hand with BitTorrent is that users want something in such a way that isn’t freely available to them through other methods. Times are changing and the BitTorrent revolution is taking over the Internet.

What’s your P2P preference? Most internet users swear by Ares, some use Limewire, others Kazaa, but there was a time when Morpheus was king. At one point, in the year 2000, Morpheus was the most-used P2P filesharing software in the world, with some 4.5 million users using the filesharing service at any given moment. In March 2002, over a period of just nine days, there were 24 million downloads of Morpheus.

How times have changed. Morpheus has had its fair share of problems. In February 2002, the Morpheus network went down after StreamCast, who develop and distribute Morpehus, fell out with Fast Track, the P2P protocol that Morpheus was using at the time.

More recently, a lawsuit by the music industry against StreamCast entered into its sixth year. The lawsuit demands that StreamCast cease distribution of Morpheus until it is able to implement effective filters.

The filters previously used with Morpheus haven’t been up to standard. Until recently, Morpheus was bundled with a keyword filter to stop users downloading pirated music. Videos longer than 10 minutes were also outlawed. The court sided with the RIAA against StreamCast and Morpheus. StreamCast is now in the tricky position of having to come up with a filter that works to stop Morpheus users download illegal music.

StreamCast’s stubbornness could be its downfall. At the moment, Morpheus users who attempt to download pirated files are redirected to a website where the music or video can be bought.

The glory days of Morpheus are long behind us but let us not forget that Morpheus was one of the original P2P filesharing services on the Internet.

P2P filesharing service Limewire has had a spanner thrown into the works after a federal judge in the US dismissed claims that the RIAA had illegally blocked Limewire’s attempts at creating a legitimate digital music service.

Last year, the RIAA sued Limewire for copyright infringement. Limewire responded with a counter-claim, accusing the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) of price fixing, hacking Limewire user accounts, promoting lies about Limewire being involved in child pornography rings and urging musicians not to deal with filesharing networks.

It was ruled this week that Limewire has no case. Representatives from Limewire were unable to prove that price fixing had directly affected the service.

Limewire’s claim that the RIAA had tried to get all filesharing services to sell up to iMesh, the only P2P music retailer approved by the RIAA, were thrown out after Limewire failed to support its claims — in spite of the federal judge finding that Limewire had been specifically harmed in this way.

The judge said, “In sum, LimeWire has failed to plead facts plausibly suggesting a ‘meeting of the minds’ among any of the [labels] to refuse ‘reasonable access’ to their hashes.”

Further claims by Limewire that the RIAA had attempted to create a “shared monopoly” were also thrown out on lack of evidence.

All Limewire claims were dismissed and the ruling cannot be appealed or overturned. Limewire had its chance and blew it. This is a major blow for the filesharing network and shows a lack of legal experience and preparation.

We can only hope that Limewire is able to bounce back after this ruling. The Internet needs Limewire.

Pepsi has hopped on the music-download bandwagon and is teaming up with Amazon as part of a year-long promotion offering free music. Pepsi is set to offer five billion music-download screw caps on bottles of the drink.

All you will have to do is collect five screw caps to exchange for your download, meaning that one billion tracks will be available, all supplied by Amazon. The campaign is expected to commence February 3, 2008.

This isn’t the first time Pepsi has offered free music downloads. In 2004, the soft-drinks giant gave away five million songs in conjunction with iTunes. This is another example of a corporate giant utilizing the power and sway of offering music downloads. It’s yet another part of the MP3 revolution that we’re experiencing and while it won’t be a big deal to most of the online music community, promotions like this make more music available for more people — we like that.

Record labels like Universal and Hollywood records are among many that are now offering their music in digital format. Even Song BMG has been looking into this niche.