businessweek.com — BT has been the belle of the file trading ball for years. But, are they selling out? Recently, BT has announced deals with over 25 companies (including Warner Bros and ASUS) and has taken their software off the open-source market. What's next?
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noonebutmeOct 23, 2006
It's not like any of the major advances in Bittorrent have come from Bram anyway - Encryption was created by uTorrent and Azureus devs. DHT was created by Azureus devs.
dchaosdxOct 24, 2006
"taken their software off the open-source market."that's like broadcasting a video for five years to north Korean TV on how to build nuclear devices, then pulling the video off and saying "HA, now you can't make nuclear bombs."
geomonOct 24, 2006
"I hope I forget about them soon."Worry not, citizen!I'm working hard as we....um... speak on the very technology used to erase memories in Men In Black.It should be ready in about 30 years (or so).
wildmxranatOct 24, 2006
The moment the bit-torrent enabled hardware ships and marketers have a service running on that backbone, where does the consumer stand. Let me guess, they have an idea for paid entertainment served backed by a consumer swarm? The swarm downloading/up for large files is the main benefit for torrents, how do the studios expect to convince a consumer to serve the file as well unless the up/down ratio counts for purchase credits.Yes, reward the users for all the bandwidth THEY pay for monthly, plus heavy usage on ISP lines that they endure as a result. Unless, they will manage to multiple mirror all content on their networks, then its a whole nother story.The moment money exchanges hands for a product or a service, everybody deserves to get a cut, even the smallest guy. I don't see how it can exist any other way.
eidolontubesOct 24, 2006
you'll be fine.
nocreOct 25, 2006
You know... I've never considered the idea of an MMO that takes advantage of distributed bandwidth and processing, but I must say that I've definitely been intrigued.It shouldn't be too difficult, either, if you've a large enough user base to maintain the requirements in a situation where other users shut down their 'support' or their systems fail or what have you. You could set quotes or regulate what you provide, and (again given a large enough user base), you'd only need a little from everyone. The program for support shouldn't be an issue. I mean, uTorrent runs practically invisibly in the background.
nocreOct 25, 2006
Uh, reverse engineer what? Why would the open-source torrent community have to conform to BT's new protocol? They already have a protocol that works just fine. If BT only wants to be compatible with BT, then so be it.
liquidpenguinOct 25, 2006
You're still missing the point. This is about the hardware that supports BitTorrent mentioned in the article. If your average blow finds it attractive to have their router download BT files into a NAS, then people are going to migrate away from OS BT.It's not your early adapters and it's not your tech gurus that push technology and software into the mainstream, it's the average guy that walks into your Circuit City or Wal*Mart and grabs what he or she thinks is a good deal. All we can do is convince people to pick A over B and give them what they ask for if we ever expect to crush the proprietary crap.We're either going to reverse engineer the router firmware and create our own set (not attractive to your average guy) or create the OS BT to be compatible with BT (much more attractive to your averate guy).