The Uncertain Future of BitTorrent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @02:09AM 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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Re:What the Story Submission Should Have Said by Neoprofin · 2007-10-31 04:47 · Score: 0, Redundant

I have personally yet to meet a drug dealer where selling drugs was not their primary, if not only, source of income. The closest thing to exceptions were a couple that held down day jobs at supermarkets or the like as a cover because they were worried about the IRS asking how they pay rent.