Tron CEO Justin Sun’s BitTorrent had 3,000 Copyright Infringements in 2018

There were over 3,000 separate copyright infringements filed against BitTorrent in 2018 alone, which is up three times as much as the year before.

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Remember LimeWire, Kazaa, and Napster? You’d wait three days to download what you thought was a DMX song. But what really turned out to be a virus which you realized once you hit play and no sound came out for 10 minutes.

Well guess what? We haven’t heard the last from file sharing websites.

Earlier today, The National Law Review released an article saying how BitTorrent has been involved in over 3,000 different cases of copyright infringment in 2018 alone.

BitTorrent is Having a Strange Year… From the Grave

BitTorrent was acquired by Tron Foundation CEO, Justin Sun, in the summer of 2018. You might remember BitTorrent from as a P2P file transfer website that was started by a University of Buffalo student in 2001.

The P2P platform was seemingly long in an unknown grave for years, however, news quietly broke that Justin Sun bought the company. This confused many people, even the former CEO of BitTorrent who said there’s no way a token can run on BitTorrent. The former-CEO was relieved of his duties around the same time that the BTT token appeared.

BitTorrent has had a a $7 million dollar, 15-minute long fundraising campaign and 3,000 copyright infringements. However, the fundraising event was riddled in conspiracy. Many users cited website problems and had issues purchasing tokens before the sale finished. Some people were furious.

Meanwhile, Justin Sun invited Kobe Bryant speak at a conference and later announced a Valentine’s Day packed with special guests such as one of the main characters from Friends, a Super Bowl winner, and winner of 3 Golden Globes.

Will Justin Sun Address the Lawsuits?

Seeing that the lawsuits for BitTorrent are due to people stealing other people’s intellectual property, such as movies, sporting events, and music, it’s interesting that Justin Sun is having two A-List actors and a 4-time Super Bowl Winner join him this week.

Will Justin Sun take this opportunity to say that he is going to monetize the BitTorrent platform using the BTT token so that the people can get money they deserve? Or will Justin Sun fail to acknowledge the lawsuits and offically ruin the television show ‘Friends’ for the rest of my life?

You be the judge, see you this Valentines Day.

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