Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Notorious Internet legends


TorrentSpy, a popular torrent tracking site is now closing its access to users in the U.S. after a lawsuit from Motion Pictures Industry. Now here is someone of interest to this topic. This fellow is a particular kind of celebrity, an internet celebrity. Those who download a lot videos from torrents sites should have come across the name Axxo.

Axxo is, one of the most popular seeders on the web. Over 1 million people download his videos every month. He's known for providing high quality movies, to the extent that most torrent sites have a special section dedicated to his files, to the point that someone used his name to start a torrent site.

File sharing on the internet is a very controversial issue, but this guy's popularity shows a lot of people rely on the internet for watching movies or TV shows. As of now, the filming industry is still not able to take advantage of the internet to make profit off its movies. I'm sure the industry would like to get in contact with file suppliers like Axxo (for various reasons).

So, what do you think about downloading files? Is it a crime? Is it fare? Or even could it be very profitable?

check out this article on Axxo:
http://torrentfreak.com/interview-axxo-the-most-popular-dvd-ripper-on-bittorrent/

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