Let's see, Slashdot offers a service where you can pay for the privilege of early access to articles before slashdotting.
Red Hat offers a service where you pay for the privilege of early access to files before their servers are swamped.
Yet, Slashdot posts a way to circumvent a stream of revenue for Red Hat. To be ethical, Slashdot should post a way to circumvent their own revenue generating service.
Really, the piece on BitTorrent should have been a separate article, and the readers on slashdot could have figured it out on their own.
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Let's see, Slashdot offers a service where you can pay for the privilege of early access to articles before slashdotting.
Red Hat offers a service where you pay for the privilege of early access to files before their servers are swamped.
Yet, Slashdot posts a way to circumvent a stream of revenue for Red Hat. To be ethical, Slashdot should post a way to circumvent their own revenue generating service.
Really, the piece on BitTorrent should have been a separate article, and the readers on slashdot could have figured it out on their own.