BitTorrent Gains Corporate Support

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 16, 2004 @06:20PM from the morally-neutral dept.

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?"

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Ok, about NYT by feder · 2004-03-16 20:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

What I don't understand is why everybody keeps referring to the registration requirement on the New York Times website when everybody seems to hate it so much ("blah, blah"). If people don't already know they will find out when they follow the link.