Bittorrent banned from Antarctica, and boy, are the penguins pissed
We all had a good little chuckle when Firefox took Antarctica by storm, capturing 100% of the web browser market share. Today the news is not so rosy for bittorrent and peer-to-peer supporters. The U.S. Antarctic Program has banned their use. From the official communique from the USAP's director of IT and communications: There are many different Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications: BitTorrent, ...
Another one bites the dust folks, well not yet. Morpheus, the p2p file sharing network owned by StreamCast, lost its case in court. The network, like many others is now in danger of being shut down because of copyright infringement charges. LimeWire was similarly sued by the RIAA in August, as well as Grokster, Napster, Kazaa, and many others. Some of these networks have been shut-down, had to ...





