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Mozilla and BitTorrent?
mcrbids asks: "Recently, I submitted this bug report to Mozilla's bugzilla requesting the additional feature that Mozilla should support BitTorrent files natively, so that Moz could support inline image tags with BitTorrent, among other things, so that high-bandwidth sites can survive the dreaded 'Slashdot effect'. However, Torrents (and many other P2P suites) have been used largely for warez and porn. Do you think the potential politics behind this outweigh the benefits of BitTorrent, such as getting a full Linux distro with record download speeds?" Update: 04/29 16:16 GMT by C :One of the links in this article was removed at the request of a site administrator.
Really? We're talking about hooking P2P to a free web browser? A P2P client which BTW has the capacity of being the next Napster ( Oh, except it's going to be harder to the RIAA/whomever to deal with).
"Do you think the potential politics behind this outweigh the benefits of BitTorrent, such as getting a full Linux distro with record download speeds?" "
Politics?
Um...lawyers?
Sheese.....we all know where it will end up.
I think it'd be a great feature....but it would also suck Mozilla into the P2P world of legal BS. Do we want it there?
Argh....
SB
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