BitTorrent Gains Corporate Support

BitWarrior writes "Recently today it was revealed that Blizzard, the creator of many legendary games such as the Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft franchises, will be using BitTorrent to distribute their Beta release of their latest game, World of Warcraft. BitTorrent is becoming a hit among companies required to distribute large quantities of data to their customers. Valve also jumped on the BitTorrent bandwagon last month(NYTimes, first born required, blah blah), hiring its creator, Bram Cohen. The one downside to Blizzards move is that BitTorrent has been added to many Universities black lists of clients to allow through their networks. Will the recent acceptance by such reputable companies open the possibility to Universities that not all P2P distribution is inherently bad?"

Comments

Lack of Morality

[flopsy mopsalon]

The problem is not bittorrents. The problem is lack of morals among today's youth. If young people are given the opportunity to use bittorrtents, they will steal music, movies, "anime", and so forth, because they have no respect for private intellectual property.

Well, as someone once said, if you can't get respect, you settle for fear. If the makers of Bittorrents, the Kazaa, WebDonkey, etc., want to see their products used for legitimate purposes, they'd best hope the lawsuits by the RIAA and others serve to scare off those who would use their products for stealing intellectual properties. It seems they are not going to cease and desist pirating out of their own sense of right and wrong.

Re:Seperated at birth?

[gingerTabs]

Funny? FUNNY?

Damn people. Cheesy, Corny and blindingly obvious I can understand but modding this guy +5 funny???

Great.

[vegetablespork]

DMCA-wielding jackbooted thugs hijack an open source protocol for their business ends. Guess it's a good thing they didn't think anyone was sharing copies of Whorecraft using Bittorrent, or they would have shut them down like they did another open source project, bnetd.