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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. Is working by dfm3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Cue the grammarians in 3... 2... 1...

    1. Re:Is working by ouzel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Cue the poor grammar/spelling apologists in 3...2...oh wait, they already came...

  2. Re:Wong+time != right; by deathy_epl+ccs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    heh. Nice use of a completely unrelated item. The decision to declare Pluto a non-planet was made by scientists who would know more about it than I. However, I don't think there was some group of top-geeks that decided as a group that Piracy is an incorrect term... or perhaps there was a huge vote that just didn't make the news on Slashdot?

    Honestly, though, what you said read more like wanting to pretend that the term has never been used... I don't think the scientific community is trying to pretend that Pluto was NEVER considered a planet.