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Dvorak Sees MS Conspiracy Against BitTorrent

Posted by Zonk on from the tin-foil-hats,-check dept.

kilgortrout writes "Dvorak has an interesting editorial up, where he links the recent stories of alleged 'security problems' and 'spyware problems' bittorent has been having with the recent MS announcement of research into a file sharing app called 'Avalanche'. concluding it's all part of an orchestrated MS disinformation campaign against BitTorrent." From the article: "The problem is that no big company controls it, and Microsoft, asleep at the wheel, let it slip too long to do much about it. So now I suspect Microsoft is playing dirty to discredit the thing. There is no other explanation for the recent series of coincidental stories and events." Especially interesting in light of Bram Cohen's take on the situation.

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  1. Re:Sheer Brilliance by spyder913 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the meantime -- anybody have a good adblock setting for his stories?

  2. /. Sees Dvorak Conspiracy Against Common Sense by sczimme · · Score: 4, Funny


    From The Fine Article:


    by early 2005 it was perhaps the dominant protocol on the Net, second only to TCP/IP itself

    Wow - TCP/IP, then P2P, and then all those small niche protocols like http, smtp, ftp...

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  3. Say it's not so! by Dark+Paladin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft would never announce a product that wasn't in existence, promote it through marketing to the point that a competitor's product dropped in sales as people waited for Microsoft's uber-cool dingy-bopper thingy - then when it's released with half of the functionality promise that the next version will really be better than its competitors while supporting themselves with their monopoly!

    I mean, they've never done that before, right?

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    1. Re:Say it's not so! by jandrese · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's scary how well it's working too. I don't think Bram has sold a single copy of BitTorrent since Avalanche was announced.

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  4. Similarly... by KamaDragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I got my license in 2001, and then gas prices skyrocketed. US oil companies were waiting for me to start driving to raise gas prices. There is no other explanation.

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    -KD
  5. Re:Sheer Brilliance by OglinTatas · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I've read /. goatse trolls with more insight than Dvorak's piece."

    Given the nature of goatse, it is next to impossible to have more insight than that, and no one wants that much insight.

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  6. Re:Sheer Brilliance by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    DANGER: Do not look into the goatse with your remaining eye.

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