{"id":4747,"date":"2008-08-06T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T20:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/fcc-bandwidth-subsidy-doesnt-help-bittorrent-inc\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T20:43:50","slug":"fcc-bandwidth-subsidy-doesnt-help-bittorrent-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/06\/fcc-bandwidth-subsidy-doesnt-help-bittorrent-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC bandwidth subsidy doesn’t help BitTorrent, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe recent FCC order requiring ISPs to donate bandwidth to peer-to-peer services was supposed to protect the Innovative-New-Application from competitive duress, but BitTorrent, Inc. didn’t get the memo:<\/a><\/p>\n

BitTorrent Inc., the file-sharing startup whose underlying technology is responsible for much of the piracy that plagues Hollywood, is laying off its sales and marketing department. The immediate cause of the layoffs: A failure to sell the Torrent Entertainment Network, BitTorrent’s attempt at an online media store, to Best Buy for a rumored $15 million. That deal fell apart, a BitTorrent insider believes, because of a recent FCC ruling on file sharing. CEO Doug Walker, who replaced troubled founder Bram Cohen last fall, had hinted at a rethink of the store in March. Walker’s also said to be rethinking BitTorrent’s “DNA” service, which sought to offer businesses a cut-rate online content-deliver service, using file-sharing technology to undercut Limelight and Akamai’s prices. BitTorrent is now thinking about making the service free, which would certainly count as “cut-rate” \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but also suggests that it hadn’t had much success selling it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While this has been going on, the good folks at Vuze have been trying to save their own bacon by facilitating piracy by searching The Pirate Bay<\/a> and Mininova<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maybe P2P has problems so deep that even Kevin Martin’s bandwidth subsidy can’t cure them. This has the feel of a developing story.<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: net neutrality<\/a>, broadband<\/a>, FCC<\/a>, Comcast<\/a>, BitTorrent<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The recent FCC order requiring ISPs to donate bandwidth to peer-to-peer services was supposed to protect the Innovative-New-Application from competitive duress, but BitTorrent, Inc. didn’t get the memo: BitTorrent Inc., the file-sharing startup whose underlying technology is responsible for much of the piracy that plagues Hollywood, is laying off its sales and marketing department. The … Continue reading “FCC bandwidth subsidy doesn’t help BitTorrent, Inc.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,33,38],"tags":[55,57],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-fcc","category-net-neutrality","tag-netn","tag-netneutrality-comcast-fcc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1ez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}