Posted on 02/04/04
File-sharing ruling opens Pandora's Box
While at the University of Waterloo, Matt Goyer and his housemates didn't want to buy premium television channels such as The Movie Network.But to make sure they didn't miss an episode of The Sopranos or Six Feet Under, both of which air in Canada on The Movie Network, Mr. Goyer and his friends would fire up a new kind of Internet-based file trading software application called BitTorrent and download episodes that had been digitized by other fans.
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