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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. Ummm by DeathFlame · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "...There is no other explanation for the recent series of coincidental stories and events."

    Unless they were a... *gasp* coincidence.

    Why would bittorrent be the P2P app that scares MS? What about Napster, or Kazza? Those were around years ago. This makes no sense to me.

    1. Re:Ummm by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because napster and kazaa are locked in the network.

      Bittorrent is anywhere, I can post a torrent link here and have 1000s of people all getting the latest and greatest(!?) version of Windows.

      Also, don't forget, its now becoming routine for people to download nice cd/dvd sized ISO files :)

      They didn't care when it took hundreds of hours per disk.

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      liqbase :: faster than paper
  2. Microsoft can MAKE Avalanch happen by TedTschopp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's actually rather easy.

    Step 1. Include support in IIS (via Patch)
    Step 2. Include support for it in IE (via Patch)
    Step 3. DONE!

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    Fantasy remains a human right; we make in our measure and in our derivative mode... -- JRR Tolkien
  3. No explanation? by jayhawk88 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is no other explanation for the recent series of coincidental stories and events.

    Except for "coincidence".