.tera is less than a few days old, yet the MPAA and RIAA have already taken action, condemning the project and suing the three Stanford developers, who released a version of the protocol only a few days ago.
Their suit accuses the protocol of inflicting ‘millions of dollars’ of damage on the US records and movie industry, with ‘the potential to inflict many millions of dollars more’ .
The developers have pledged to fight the suit, and have set up an Indiegogo campaign to cover legal fees, as well as a Bitcoin address. Quoting the campaign’s page:
We believe that .tera is the future of file-sharing. It is a more secure, more stable version of the .torrent protocol that made sharing large files possible in the days before widespread broadband availability. This technology is merely a tool, and we are not responsible for how it is used.
In an independent essay, a letter signed by the MPAA, RIAA, and other entertainment trade groups called upon technology leaders and ISPs to filter or ban the .tera protocol until the legal issues surrounding it were solved.
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