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The Question that the Bit Torrent Procedure Kindles Bram Cohen was an unusual kid. While other first-graders were outside pl

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问题                 The Question that the Bit Torrent Procedure Kindles
    Bram Cohen was an unusual kid. While other first-graders were outside playing, he was writing computer code. By junior high, he could solve Rubik’s Cube in a few minutes. A college dropout, he went on to co-found a hacker’s convention in San Francisco. " I was always really weird," he says. Yet it was only two years ago, at age 27, that he learned why. Cohen says he has trouble examining his thoughts and making eye contact but has learned to control his symptoms using behavioral psychology. Now he has a new task: warding off accusations by the Hollywood film industry that a breakthrough piece of software he wrote is threatening the movie business the way Napster menaced—and subsequently revolutionized—the music world.
    Cohen is the author of a free program called Bit Torrent, which has been downloaded more than 20 million times and underpins a new generation of file-sharing technology. BitTorrent addresses a couple of the biggest problems of file sharing—that downloading bogs down when lots of folks access a file at once, and that some people download content but refuse to share with others on the network. BitTorrent eliminates the bottleneck by having everyone share little pieces of a file at the same time—a process techies call swarming. And the program prevents leeching since folks must upload a file while they download it. All this means that the more popular the content, the more efficiently it zips through the network—bad news if you’re a movie studio trying to hinder the trading of films like The Incredibles. Says Andrew Parker of the Web-tracking firm CacheLogic, " It has turned the download world on its head."
    Hollywood has good reason to be worried. BitTorrent downloads account for one-third of Internet traffic, according to CacheLogic. So-called tracker sites post links to movies, video games and episodes of TV shows, the content of which is then traded at express speeds. With more folks logging onto the Internet via broadband connections, online trading of movies and TV shows is surging. Downloads of feature films alone are up 175% in the past year, says BigChampagne. In response, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPA[A]) recently filed dozens of civil suits against tracker sites in the U. S. and Britain, as well as criminal complaints against sites in France. The industry is hoping that in a case scheduled for next month, the U. S. Supreme Court will rule against firms that produce file-sharing software, such as Morpheus and Grokster. Neither Cohen nor BitTorrent is named in the lawsuit, although an MPAA spokesman says Cohen is under examination for continuing to develop the software "and making it easy to steal copyright material".
What action did the film industry take to deal with free download of films?
选项 A、It has masked links to films from some websites.
B、It has brought accusations against some companies.
C、It is ready to prosecute Cohen for his free file.
D、It has taken an appeal to a higher court.
答案B
解析 事实细节题。末段倒数第三句指出：美国电影协会最近对美国和英国的跟踪网站提出了数十起民事诉讼；倒数第二句提到“电影业希望，在一桩预定下月举行的诉讼中，美国最高法院会判决生产文件共享软件的Morpheus和Grokster等公司败诉"。因此可以看出这些诉讼是对电影版权的保护行动，故[B]为答案。末段第二句提到“一些所谓的跟踪网站，把电影、视频游戏以及电视剧段落的链接地址公布出来”，但并没有说电影业屏蔽一些链接地址，排除[A]；末句明确指出“这个官司中未提到科恩和BitTorrent，不过MPAA的发言人说，正在对科恩进行调查”，由此无法推断出[C]；末段明确提到美国最高法院，并非是上一级法院，排除[D]。
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