Peer-to-peer network BitTorrent has “enabled a huge black...

Peer-to-peer network BitTorrent has “enabled a huge black market for the ’sharing’ of creative works without the creators’ permission,” said Ruth Vitale, executive director of CreativeFuture, an anti-piracy advocacy group for artists and creators, in a Thursday blog post (http://bit.ly/1zDq8Sf). She criticized BitTorrent’s refusal to “clearly and definitively condemn the misuse of its protocol for piracy” and was skeptical of its reported plan to crowdsource funding for a TV series. “If BitTorrent really wants to be a friend to creativity, the company can’t have it both ways,” she said. BitTorrent didn’t comment.