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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?"
Bram Cohen, author of Bittorrent, and Adrian Paul, star of Highlander the Series.
When is /. going to learn that you can't flood sites, steal music, or copy DVDs without repercussion?
The day that Linus Torvalds joins the board of directors at SCO.
Wow.
A company a distribution method that is both smart and approved by the target audience?
Doesn't that violate some kind of business "decision making" law?
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The last digit of pi is four.
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*pause*
*in unison*
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(it's actually that leaked DOOM 3 alpha...)
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No it doesn't; I just changed the password on john; QED.
You can thank me later.
Your shift key obviously works, try using it at the beginning of a sentence.
What, you want him to break the law?
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
The answer to that is to install trojan horses onto a whole bunch of machines and raise the mean...
*cough*
Will the recent acceptance by such reputable companies open the possibility to Universities that not all P2P distribution is inherently bad?
"So you see chancellor, there's no reason for the University to not use Bittorrent since reputable companies such as Blizzard and Valve are now on the bandwagon."
"What's that? What is it used for? Why downloading games software of course."
"Educational? Oh ho ho, hell no! I mean, Blizzard is releasing a MMORPG that will, in all likelyhood, cause your students to ignore their studies entirely and ultimately fail their... uh... can we start again?"
Sounds like my ISP.
seriously, 2GB a month? I use that on just slashdot.
How Now Brown Cow