The Scheme to Discredit BitTorrent

Roy Culley poked his little head through the XP firewall and said:

Dvorak is pretty humorous, this time:

"For a good laugh view the Avalanche PowerPoint slide show. It shows all sorts of graphs as if Avalanche is actually in the wild being used. I have never seen such a crock in my life. Can you say "dry lab?"

Where Is the News Reporting? What bothered me the most about this episode was that there was no reporting whatsoever regarding the BitTorrent as spyware claims or even the credibility of the renowned MVP Chris Boyd. It was basically parroting a leap-of-faith accusation in a blog that somehow developed into these eventual talking points: Use BitTorrent and you'll get spyware. BitTorrent sucks, and oh, Microsoft has something better, although it's never been shippedbut it's better!

Does this sort of media irresponsibility and laziness ever end? Or why don't we just shoot everyone doing good work, lie about the facts, and turn everything over to Microsoft and its Redmond compound? The only defenders of BitTorrent I saw regarding this issue were buried here and there on Slashdot. They sure were not in the newsrooms or the blogs for that matter. All the stories I saw were disgraceful.

-- When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.