Dvorak Sees MS Conspiracy Against BitTorrent

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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Thank you MR. Obvious.

[iibagod]

I think he's got something there.

Dvorak = vaporthought

[Iriel]

Okay, the only major point that Dvorak makes here is that MS is clearly up to something. Through each group of sentences, it's almost the exact same thing. When considering how old Micro$oft is, anyone can make a conjecture that M$ is up to some sort of conspiracy. Do you know what it's called?

Marketing

We all know the M$ hype machine and don't need any sort of self-proclaimed expert to tell us that something from M$ is not what it seems. However, I think there could be more to the idea of an Avalanche conspiracy:

How about the idea that M$ could strike a deal with the (MP | RI)AA to give them the info on people trading copyrighted files that had been hacked due to a pathetic DRM? I know it may sound like a little bit of a stretch, but Verizon DSL did something similar before, so I'm surprised that Dvorak didn't think of it.

Wait a minute...a squirrel just climbed a tree...M$ is behind this.