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Ironically, the company that bought µTorrent was BitTorrent, Inc[1]. They're the geniuses also responsible for forking IPFS, renaming it to "BTFS", and not ackn
by xd1936 5y ago
Ironically, the company that bought µTorrent was BitTorrent, Inc[1]. They're the geniuses also responsible for forking IPFS, renaming it to "BTFS", and not acknowledging IPFS as an upstream in any way[2].
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainberry,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainberry,_Inc.
2. https://twitter.com/juanbenet/status/1250634833258143744 https://twitter.com/juanbenet/status/1250634833258143744
- RankingMember 5y agoWow, that's a bummer, had no idea the people behind the hollowing out and filling with shit of µTorrent include the actual creator of the protocol itself.
- chaosharmonic 5y agoIf it makes you feel any better about it, that tweet thread is from 2020, and the actual creator of the protocol itself hasn't worked there in a day to day capacity since 2017.[0] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
- Dylan16807 5y agoIt makes me not worry about this BTFS thing, but utorrent going bad was around 2010.
- btthrowaway 5y agoBTFS is the product of an entirely different group of people than the ones who were responsible for the uTorrent purchase. BitTorrent Inc was itself bought by cryptocurrency company TRON in 2018. Few people who worked at BT Inc prior to the acquisition are still there, and AFAIK none of them ever worked on BTFS.
- xd1936 5y agoDifferent team of people, all working in the same company, correct?
- btthrowaway 5y agoTechnically yes, but as is typical with an acquisition there's residual divide between projects which originated from the BT Inc side of the company and those from the TRON side. BTFS is very much a product of the TRON side despite using the BitTorrent branding.