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Re:Bad Times For BitTorrent: $17 M Financing Undone, Valuati... by mdasen on Sunday December 14, 2008 @05:09PM (#397698)
Well, what's their business model?

BitTorrent DNA seems like an awesome idea - use individuals computers as a content delivery network to reduce bandwidth on your servers. However, it requires users to install a client program on their computer which means most people won't be able to use it.

And, like BitTorrent itself, what's stopping someone else from just reimplementing it and loosing them their profit?

I'm not saying that they don't make something of value. It's just that they don't monetize it well.

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Re:Bad Times For BitTorrent: $17 M Financing Undone, Valuati... by Zev on Sunday December 14, 2008 @05:41PM (#397723)
DNA is based on uTorrent, which is closed source - rather then the open sourced BitTorrent client.

But if you want to go down that road, whats to stop anyone from redoing any idea on their own instead of using a pre-existing product? Not very much, in reality.

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