Not all file-sharing websites are created equal, according to U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell.
Howell, writing in a series of opinions Thursday denying protective orders for potential defendants in separate but similar copyright infringement cases, noted that while similar orders had been granted in other file-sharing suits, the nature of the site in question, BitTorrent, raised new issues.
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