BRAD BUCKLEE
'v'lCl: PRESIDENT, ANTI-PIRACY

 

July 30, 2015

Eric Klinker

Chief Executive Officer
BitTorrent, Inc.

303 Second St, Suite 560!)
San Francisco, CA 

Dear Mr. Klinker,

This year marks the 1i]lh anniversary of BitTorrent, Inc?s development of a distributed hash
table approach to file distribution, and yet, as we have previously discussed with your
company, we remain very concerned about the overwhelming use of EIitTorrent, Inc. developed
clients to infringe our members? content. Consider, for example, the following:

- The software client applications developed, marketed, and distributed by BitTorrent,
Inc. facilitated approximately ofthe over 1.5 million torrent based infringements of
our members? works in the United States upon which a notice was sent in Z?lii.

I- Based on a random sample of 51:0 torrents containing audio content that was selected
from data obtained from BitTorrent, lnc.'s DHT, 32.4% were found to be commercially
available and therefore highly likely to be protected by copyright.

99 of the top IUD most popular music torrents in the Music category on one of the most
popular torrent portals, KickassTorrents, were found to be infringing.

BitTorrent, Inc?s most popular clients, uTorrent and BitTorrent, are used by millions of people
and the number of infringements of our members? content far exceeds the number of notices
we have sent to date. Matt I'vIason, the Chief Content Officer at BitTorrent has stated that he
piracy happens outside the. BilTorrent ecosystem". But, as the above data clearly shows, this
argument is disingenuous when BitTorrent, Inc. itself is the source of the software that is used
so overwhelmingly for infringement.

Mr. Mason has also said: ?If you're using Bit Torrent for piracy, then you?re doing it wrong." We
urge BitTorrent, Inc. to live up to those words and to take meaningful steps to deter this
widespread infringement occurring using its own products and services.


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We also note that there has been recent press about harmful software and viruses associated
with BitTorrent, Inc. and its products. It is well known that piracv and malwarefviruses often go
hand in hand. Providing adequate safeguards to address these issues is vital to regain consumer
trust.

Attached is a subset of the list of veri?ed hashes offiles of our members? works that have and
are liker continuing to be infringed via BitTorrent, Inc?s products and services. We are willing
to establish a process to share the hashes with BitTorrent, Inc. on a regular basis so that
BitTorrent. Inc. can use the information to deter further infringement of those ?les via its goods
and services. We also know of several companies that offer services to help identify,i infringing
torrent sites and files that may be useful in helping BitTorrent, Inc. deter piracv through
BitTorrer?it, Inc.?s products and services.

To quote Mr. Mason vet again, "We don?t endorse piracy.? Ifthat is indeed vour business
philosophv, then we believe it is onlvr right and proper for BitTorrent, Inc. to take steps to
reduce their facilitation of infringement. We look forward to hearing from vou on next steps.

Sincerelv,


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Brad Buckles
Executive Vice President, ill-triti?Piracyr

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