The choice of this title for an article related to this week's Supreme Court decision shows a lack of awareness by the copy editor of recent news items.

The fact is that the RIAA launched a massive crackdown on all the major BitTorrent tracker sites just before Christmas last year, forcing SuprNova and others to shut down permanently and driving former users back to Gnutella using clients such as LimeWire.

A few brave server administrators have launched new BitTorrent trackers since then, and interestingly, the largest tracker, TorrentSpy (which replaced the defunct SuprNova.org as the premier tracker) has been down all morning, so it would be interesting to know whether that is the result of legal action.

BTW, the developer's name is misspelled in the article. It should be "Bram," as in the shortened form of Abraham, rather than "Barm."

Anyway, the key point is that most BitTorrent usage was terminated by RIAA last Christmas. I suspect that it is Windows users, who focus on Windows-only platforms such as Grokster and KaZaA, who may be latecomers to BitTorrent and may not have been aware of the widespread crackdown that has already taken place.