Bittorrent Received $8.75 Million Support

Bittorrent technology has just received a commitment of $8.75 million in financial support. Bittorrent will be built into a commercial distribution tool for media companies.

The author got that much money for just a program...
it must be RIAA/MPAA's new weapon against downloaders.

One more thing,
if it becomes commercial program, bitorrent will no longer be open source.
Those third party applications such as Azurezus have to pay fees if they still want to
devolving/distributing them. is that correct???

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Don't have to be scared though, even if bit torrent becomes closed source, the previous open source versions WILL remain open since you can't change that anymore. So other people could develop the protocol even further.Side note, if there will be a commercial version of Bit torrent, it will be very different from the ones we use now, since those don't have any digital rights management systems implemented, so it wouldn't even be backward compatible.ps. Azureus s/u/c/k/s a/s/s/, use bit comet

Azureus does not s/u/c/k a/s/s I happen to use Azureus and its one good god dam program for download .torrent files :blink:Also, is it illegal to download using bit torrent

It's illegal to download movies, mp3's warez etc.. Even linux distros and packages can be downloaded as a torrent.I've used P2P for a long time, seen some "revolutioned" technologies but Bittorrent really made me think, there's no centralized server to handle all the requests, it's all onm the users. I bugs me, if they pay $8,75 million to Bittorrent, they own it and can do what they want. Seems like Big Brother is taking over..

Yes, big brother can TRY to kick our asses, but as long as the internet users keep their old versions of the Bittorrent client, I think there's nothing that can be done to stop people downloading files through bittorrent protocol. Maybe it will get harder to run a tracker, but I think since there's Exeem, a trackerless version ot bittorrent, users will always find a way to keep that thingy alive. Ok, leave your windows open ...

8.5 Mil is chump change compared to the profits loss by Torrents. Like one poster said, something bigger and better will spawn once the get to regulating Torrents... filesharing will never die.

Yes, but 8.5 Million Dollars is quite a lot of money for one programmer. I guess he never ever really needs to write a proram again.

BitTorrent is one of the best new protocols out today but I have to use Azureus and I kave to say it kicks A55, I tried BitComet and it took up too much cpu time and memory even tho it was useful. Azureus is the only one so far that will run on linux I think, it's written in Java and needs the JRE to run, but Sun makes a JRE for Linux so I just installed that.By the way I just installed MandrakeLinux 10.1 Official last night and I have to say it's better than windows, I'm posting off of linux now.But what I think is happening is they 8.5 mil is because a front for the RIAA is going to try and steer them towards the legal road by offering them more money to develop into a legal protocol that they can use to make prepaid P2P.

As other have stated, we'll still be able to use our older versions. When those (somehow) get closed down, there'll be a new and better program available for file downloading/sharing. One of the nice things about the internet is that it's always changing.

In the beginning, P2P software of any sort was legally sound. It was the actual people that submitted copyrighted files through it that were the ones that could only get done. But first the police had to find them.However, now is a different story. If the P2P software (of any sort) is used to transmit copyrighted files without consent, then they are liable under new online legislation. Recently, several P2P software has been taken off the shelf. And some have been sued tremendously. The owners rightly protest that it is the people that use it who should get done and not them, which I agree, but it is not to be. By making bittorrent closed source software, they are no longer subdue to legal issues. Unless they obviously break a law. The company that owns bittorrent knows that it can not retain the open source versions and are more than likely going to shut down the servers that control them.

Azureus does not s/u/c/k a/s/s I happen to use Azureus and its one good god dam program for download .torrent files

 

Also, is it illegal to download using bit torrent 

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Bah with you. I've had it with Azureus. That unstable piece of... Thing would freeze or completely crash all the time. I use BitComet now and it's seems to be much more reliable. I have to admit that prolonged usage lags my computer but Azureus was much worse...

 

As for private BitTorrent, I dunno the article is no longer available!

 

Replacement link......

 

http://news.softpedia.com/news/BitTorrent-Gets-8-75-Million-to-Become-Legal-9469.shtml

 

According to that BitTorrent was responsible for 30% of internet traffic in 2004 LOL! I figure the official version will be die on arrival and people will stick to the old version until another version comes out. Probably something like Kazaa Lite except it will remove regulations instead of spyware.

Bah with you.  I've had it with Azureus.  That unstable piece of...  Thing would freeze or completely crash all the time.  I use BitComet now and it's seems to be much more reliable.  I have to admit that prolonged usage lags my computer but Azureus was much worse...

Wash your mouth with soap, man, it's the best app available for Mac and there it never freezes or crashes. Blame windows! The only contra against it, is that it reserves space for a file before it needs it, which is really annoying. I don't know why they have to do that, because the official BitTorrent Client for Mac does without (but sucks in features).

Just wanted to add: You cannot buy a Peer to Peer network, should be clear by the word itself ^^
I don't think it is a good thing to donate money to someone who develops peer to peer software. It's ethically not really the right thing to do. I mean, he invests his time, but he also gets a lot of free stuff out of it, has his profit. Of course, if you like a program so much.. but I think concerning peer to peer software there is a difference to (completely) legal software. A programmer of P2P has a benefit that is worth money, any other programmer has only experience or whatever benefit (if he does open source).

I personally prefer Shareaza. It connects to Gnutella2, E-Donkey 2k an Gnutella (1). The searches are fast, and becuase of the link with E-Donkey, there are millions of users.Azureus; league of its own. And I don't mean this in a good way. For windows it's GUI needs re-doing (wait, they actually have a GUI?) and is as un-usable as Microsoft Internet Explorer.