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Bittorrent banned from Antarctica, and boy, are the penguins pissed

by Lee Mathews on August 18, 2009 at 09:00 PM

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, ...