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The Uncertain Future of BitTorrent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the standards-are-hard dept.

javipas writes "The people behind the popular BitTorrent tracker are working on a new version of the BitTorrent protocol that could become the successor to the current one, maintained by BitTorrent Inc. The company founded by Bram Cohen — original author of this protocol — now has decided to close the source for several new features in the BitTorrent protocol, and this "gives them too much power and influence". The new file format would be called .p2p, and would maintain backwards compatibility with current .torrent files."

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  1. Re:so? by ubrgeek · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Leave Kevin alone! Anyone who has a problem with Kevin has to go through me! Don't you know what he's been going through?!> Leave Kevin alone! ... *grin*

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  2. Re:When will people realise by pipatron · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I for one, welcome our new communist overlords.

    Really.

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  3. That's nice... by Otter · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The people behind the popular BitTorrent tracker is working on...
    Too bad you can't steal grammar, huh?
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  4. Re:What the Story Submission Should Have Said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    all thepiratebay give a fuck about is keeping their multi million dollar advertising revenue going. they don't give a fuck about the torrent protocol or anything else. when will people learn, that is a criminal run website with a very slick PR team.