It was an absurd pairing of two separate and dissimilar block-structured sync protocols and I am not at all surprised. This should've been disallowed on pure b

It was an absurd pairing of two separate and dissimilar block-structured sync protocols and I am not at all surprised. This should've been disallowed on pure bandwidth efficiency grounds. I'm sure the actual reason was "torrent user == pirate" and they just didn't want any juvenile connections, bad news in any language. Everyone who read the original story saw this coming.