BitTorrent's Battle Against Itself
By revolutionizing how we share stuff, BitTorrent also backed itself into a corner that it now seems desperate to escape from—using the same tools that made it what it is.
By revolutionizing how we share stuff, BitTorrent also backed itself into a corner that it now seems desperate to escape from—using the same tools that made it what it is.
The industry buzz will wear off, and the host of 'next Airbnbs' will have to prove that peer-to-peer sharing works in the messy, crowded marketplace.
So you know the free music downloads you share over your fun social networking sites? The sober and dreadlocked Lanier isn't smiling about our internet paradigm at all. In that old dinosaur the "Wall Street Journal":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10…