News BitTorrent replaces CEO, loses staff

[CardJoe]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/11...-loses-staff/1

As the credit crunch bites, file sharing giant BitTorrent has made some cost-cutting measures including laying off half of its staff and replacing its CEO.

[Gunsmith]

i miss the days of when piracy was an art, now even my mother can do it :/

[DougEdey]

I just don't get who thought it'd be a good idea to turn a profit from P2P. Ever.

[Sim0n]

Originally Posted by Gunsmith

i miss the days of when piracy was an art, now even my mother can do it :/

What you mean is, she can click a link and have a client download something.
Piracy would actually be the act of taking that camcorder into the cinema, or reverse-engineering a game .exe file to allow nocd's to work.

:P

[Sathy]

Yes, gone are the days when there was glory in piracy...oh, wait! That doesn't make any sense.

[bowman]

Profiwhat? How on earth are you going to profit from something like this?

Completely silly, you don't see 'the Linux Corporation' and Linus as chairman of the board. What they need is to look at the Mozilla Foundation and the Linux Foundation, rather.

[Ghys]

Originally Posted by Gunsmith

i miss the days of when piracy was an art, now even my mother can do it :/

I miss the days when we would try to download a game off of some warez website. The game would usually be about 150mb and split up in 75 2mb rar files. The games were small because the music was removed

Of course the challenge back then was to browse those warez site and try not to get caught because it would inevitably look like we were looking at porn