B
Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28
| BitTorrent Grown Up and Left Dad?
Does anyone at all still use or want the original BitTorrent client or its current closed incarnation now that Bram has turned semi-evil (or rather, wants to make some money for his work)?
Hasn't BitTorrent, per se, moved on without him in just about every conceivable way?
I'm not pontificating -- I'm really asking. (It's not something I've closely followed.)
As to throttling, I suppose Bram considers the other means companies use to corrupt file sharing (fake trackers and corrupt or incomplete connections or "bait" or whatever it's called) equally clever and admirable?
I guess the guy's a genius, but he may also be a tool.
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02
Host:
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PC gaming GAMES
PC gaming Tech
| I think you're probably right that things having moved on.
His big solution to avoid throttling (right around the time he was trying to monetize the client into the form of a store) was to make the client closed source and really push ISP level caching, which as far as I know, no ISP has invested in. |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | reply to B
He bought uTorrent, I don't think the python client is the one they push anymore. |
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