torrentfreak.com — BitTorrent Inc., founded by Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent protocol, is firing 12 of its 55 employees. The company, which also develops the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent, had been struggling to make money from their download store, which is one of the causes of the layoffs.
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gcnaddictAug 7, 2008
12/55 != 0.2
samard2002Aug 7, 2008
I'm guessing I'm not going to meet any girls in this part of the Comments thread.
Closed AccountAug 7, 2008
Whatever, they are jobless now.
gimmini2003Aug 7, 2008
*tear*I WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP!!!
turnipfarmAug 7, 2008
It's hilarious when companies try to make money off piracy, and it never works out too well.
glitchenzoAug 7, 2008
AND YOU FAILED!!! :-PSeriously though, I don't know why everyone had to be such an ass to you. I was mainly commenting to show off the uber-cool not-equals symbol.
zunipusAug 13, 2008
I think a few folks here need to read up on the history of BitTorrent. The guy who created BitTorrent is a bit of a genius, and was smart and generous enough to make it Open Source. Thus we have great and elaborate derivatives like Azureus (which, after you turn off all the marketing crap, is actually very powerful).Then the developer basically got put in a corner by the MPAA (the motion picture assh*le association, the movie equivalent of the RIAA thugs) and did some palsy-walsy marketing photos with some guy who looks like Lurch from the Adams Family (very scary) and changed the BitTorrent site into the equivalent of the current Napster. Same strategy, same failure to thrive after being corrupted.Conclusion: No surprise. The RIAA and MPAA bought the pirates out, set up a worthless business that worked in their favor, everyone with a brain got the clue about the con and abandoned the site. No income. Bye-bye.