Bittorrent Goes Closed Source

[dserban 0]

Just found this on digg:

http://www.slyck.com/story1566_BitTorrent_d_Source_Issues

My comments:
If this doesn't smell like a backroom deal with the RIAAs and the MPAAs of the world, I don't know what does.

Thoughts?

[ethergeek 0]

Worst case scenario is that they change the reference implementation so that non-official clients suffer slow downloads or fail to work...they can do whatever the hell they want with the "official version"...someone will eventually reverse-engineer the protocol (for us linux users, of course) and write an unofficial version, open source it, and it's a cat-and-mouse game until someone comes up with something better than bittorrent.