BitTorrent to add search?

“Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen’s popular BitTorrent protocol.”

This sounds like a legal disaster waiting to happen. Of course, BitTorrent has many legal uses, but a search engine that would also allow you to acquire commercial software.. is not going to go over well. We’ll see how it goes once released though. Read the full article at Wired.