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> it helped catalyze the inevitable media distribution revolution of the past decade

Just because the tightly entangled media oligopoly chooses to ignore its usefulness does not make it worthless.

Bittorrent is extremely useful, dependable, scalable, and usable.

Bittorrent can be used in any situation where static data is distributed to many peers. It's the static part that doesn't mix well with DRM, and therefore gets ignored by media distributors who are convinced they are obligated to "protect" data from its fundamental ability to be copied.



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