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It's another crime committed by a scummy (is there any other kind?) blockchain company, naturally.

RL_Quine 7y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted, this is quite literally the case. "BitTorrent" as a company was sold to "Tron", a "blockchain" company making the same nonsensical and impossible claims as the rest of them. This one in particular was made famous by not even writing their 'white paper', but copying the text from another. https://twitter.com/juanbenet/status/950142785373405184 https://twitter.com/juanbenet/status/950142785373405184
- codetrotter 7y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. Their comment read to me like they were calling BitTorrent “a blockchain company”, but I guess they were referring to Tron? It would be weird to characterize BitTorrent as “a blockchain company” just because they’ve been sold to another company that is doing blockchain. Edit: The original article and the comments above gave me the impression that BitLord was a product by the BitTorrent company but it’s not. Removed sentence asking about who made the decision to bundle malware and when.
  - RL_Quine 7y ago
    https://blog.bittorrent.com/2018/07/23/its-official-bittorrent-is-now-part-of-tron/ https://blog.bittorrent.com/2018/07/23/its-official-bittorre... The announcement is dated 23rd July 2018. https://www.airoav.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/image14.png https://www.airoav.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/image14.pn... The certificate for the malware is stamped 4th September 2018.
    - codetrotter 7y ago
      That doesn’t tell us when they first started bundling the malware though. Either way, I just found out that BitLord is not made by the BitTorrent company. Same thing has happened before – companies bundling malware with their own BitTorrent clients. For example, in 2016. https://www.pcworld.com/article/3114134/bittorrent-client-is-found-distributing-mac-based-malware.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/3114134/bittorrent-client-is... I think any blockchain companies have nothing much relevance here. And I guess what the top-most commenter was calling for was that BitTorrent the company should use trademark laws to disallow companies that bundle malware with their software from using the BitTorrent brand?
      - rocqua 7y ago
        I remember having to format my PC after updating uTorrent and just spamming next. I installed some opt-out adware that was a decent rootkit.
- carbocation 7y ago
  Interestingly, apparently Justin Sun / Tron's founder hasn't completed the final payment to Bram Cohen for the purchase of BitTorrent https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/1154436575251447809?s=20 https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/1154436575251447809?s=2...
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Not sure why this was downvoted, this is quite literally the case. "BitTorrent" as a company was sold to "Tron", a "blockchain" company making the same nonsensical and impossible claims as the rest of them. This one in particular was made famous by not even writing their 'white paper', but copying the text from another. https://twitter.com/juanbenet/status/950142785373405184 https://twitter.com/juanbenet/status/950142785373405184

codetrotter 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Their comment read to me like they were calling BitTorrent “a blockchain company”, but I guess they were referring to Tron? It would be weird to characterize BitTorrent as “a blockchain company” just because they’ve been sold to another company that is doing blockchain. Edit: The original article and the comments above gave me the impression that BitLord was a product by the BitTorrent company but it’s not. Removed sentence asking about who made the decision to bundle malware and when.
- RL_Quine 7y ago
  https://blog.bittorrent.com/2018/07/23/its-official-bittorrent-is-now-part-of-tron/ https://blog.bittorrent.com/2018/07/23/its-official-bittorre... The announcement is dated 23rd July 2018. https://www.airoav.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/image14.png https://www.airoav.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/image14.pn... The certificate for the malware is stamped 4th September 2018.
  - codetrotter 7y ago
    That doesn’t tell us when they first started bundling the malware though. Either way, I just found out that BitLord is not made by the BitTorrent company. Same thing has happened before – companies bundling malware with their own BitTorrent clients. For example, in 2016. https://www.pcworld.com/article/3114134/bittorrent-client-is-found-distributing-mac-based-malware.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/3114134/bittorrent-client-is... I think any blockchain companies have nothing much relevance here. And I guess what the top-most commenter was calling for was that BitTorrent the company should use trademark laws to disallow companies that bundle malware with their software from using the BitTorrent brand?
    - rocqua 7y ago
      I remember having to format my PC after updating uTorrent and just spamming next. I installed some opt-out adware that was a decent rootkit.
carbocation 7y ago
Interestingly, apparently Justin Sun / Tron's founder hasn't completed the final payment to Bram Cohen for the purchase of BitTorrent https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/1154436575251447809?s=20 https://twitter.com/bramcohen/status/1154436575251447809?s=2...

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