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DCIA P2P & Cloud Media Summit in Review

Last week BitTorrent participated in the first ever P2P & CLOUD MEDIA SUMMIT held in conjunction with Digital Hollywood 2010. The aim of the summit was to explore current policy, technology, and content issues as well as next-generation business opportunities related to P2P and cloud based commercial offerings. My presentation titled “The Glass Half Full:…

2010/05/11

The impact of the ‘third way’ on the information highway

“One of the Internet’s greatest strengths–its unprecedented power to foster technological, economic, and social innovation–stems in significant part from the absence of any central controlling authority, either public or private. The FCC’s role, therefore should not involve regulating the Internet itself.” – FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, May 6, 2010 This week’s announcement from FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski…

2010/05/07

The day Net Neutrality died?

Well probably not. At least hopefully not. As Louis D. Brandeis remarked: “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. ” And so it remains…  With today’s decision from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on…

2010/04/07

Twitter using BitTorrent on the Backend

Anyone who has the battle scars that come from managing a large operational set of computers, like a large popular web site, knows all too well the challenge of deploying a new image site-wide.  Often times, this needs to happen fast (think emergency patch) and as with so many other applications on the network, the traditional client-server model…

2010/02/10

Point-Click-Wait or Point-Click-Watch… Will Streaming Break BitTorrent?

The work we are currently doing to bring streaming to our popular µTorrent freeware has the potential to bring transformational improvements to the user experience for BitTorrent users. But its not without at least a little controversy, which I’d like to discuss in this post. Roughly speaking, the controversy falls into two different areas: (1)   …

2009/12/24

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