BitTorrent non-crisis

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So the MPAA has succeeded in having popular torrent tracker site SuprNova shut down. So? As Douglas Rushkoff noted recently, this latest turn will simply be the impetus the hackers need to find a way of tracking torrents in a more distributed fashion. The harder the studios push, the faster the technology evolves. And once all the centralized servers are gone, the studios will have lost their only opportunity to harness the power of P2P networking.