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Usually I would give someone like Bram Cohen the benefit of doubt, but this paragraph: “We want people to use and adopt BitTorrent Live. But we aren’t
by yk 14y ago
Usually I would give someone like Bram Cohen the benefit of doubt, but this paragraph:
“We want people to use and adopt BitTorrent Live. But
we aren’t planning on encouraging alternative
implementation because it’s a tricky protocol to
implement and poorly behaved peers can impact everyone.
We want to ensure a quality experience for all and this
is the best approach for us to take,” Cohen told
TorrentFreak.
So they are relying on the patent system to ensure that every peer is playing nicely? In a p2p protocol? What could possibly go wrong?
- eurleif 14y agoIt might be that they don't need every peer to play nice, but a quorum of peers. If that were the case, a client with a buggy implementation could easily gain popularity quickly and mess things up, but it would take an attacker with a botnet to do it intentionally. It also looks like they're making this free as in beer: > Bram Cohen explains that the patent is in no way going to restrict user’ access to the new protocol, quite the contrary. BitTorrent Live will be available to end users for free, and publishers who are using the service and hosting it on their own will not be charged either.
- wyager 14y ago>It also looks like they're making this free as in beer: I have no interest in free beer. I prefer free speech.
- astrodust 14y agoLawsuit -> Hostile acquisition -> Patent weaponization -> More lawsuits.
- CamperBob2 14y agoExactly. Cohen doesn't seem to understand that he's basically in the land mine business now.
- muyuu 14y agoI don't buy it. I will have to read the details very closely but on principle this reeks of monopolistic practices. Doesn't matter it's Bram Cohen.
- AnthonyMouse 14y ago>monopolistic practices That's what a patent is.