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   The eejit (profile), Feb 11th, 2011 @ 2:42pm

   
   

   But you just KNOW that someone will try and kill it over a patent or something stupid like that.
   
   And the only people who win that one are the lawyers.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 3:13pm

   
   

   The core of BitTorrent has always been the underlying infrastructure it provides
   
   Except they don't provide infrastructure, users do. BitTorrent as a protocol only presents that methods by which people can choose to share their internet connection and bandwidth.
   
   Sadly, Bit Torrent as a protocol is mostly used for less than legal purposes. I am sure your friends institute will reset the balance, once again turning the P2P arena into a nearly perfectly lawful way to do business.
   
   but but censorship!

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 3:18pm

   
   

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   Yawn.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 3:20pm

   
   

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   .torrent = .knowledge

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 3:23pm

   
   

   This has brought me much joy. Finlay real change.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 3:23pm

   
   

   This is news to which the RIAA/MPAA had to say, "KHAAAAAAAAN!!!"

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 3:28pm

   
   

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   Finlay was involved? He never told me!

    

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   ChurchHatesTucker (profile), Feb 11th, 2011 @ 3:35pm

   
   

   Perfect

   Online courses are a perfect fit for bittorrent. People are likely to keep them for at least a semester, which ensures a lot of seeders.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 3:39pm

   
   

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   lol

    

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 3:49pm

    
    

    Somebody should contribute a patch to any subtitle editor to use voice synthesizers, basically it would be a SRT -> SABLE then people can translate it to many many languages automagically.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 3:51pm

    
    

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    I can just picture a porn movie translation.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 4:48pm

    
    

    This is just incredible. I will ask my kids to take a look at this tonight.

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 7:06pm

    
    

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    Don't worry, P2P will be "perfectly lawful" in another 2 years, when yet another protocol or infrastructure comes along to make it obsolete.
    
    Remember kids, piracy knows how to change with the times!

     

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    Usha, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 7:17pm

    
    

    I can't open the webpages of Khan Academy. I suppose there is some problem in loading the page.
    
    What is everybody talking about??

     

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    Prashanth (profile), Feb 11th, 2011 @ 7:27pm

    
    

    Woah, that's awesome news. When I first heard about Bill Gates praising it, I was a little skeptical because I thought it might lead to Microsoft having a stake in it and releasing videos in proprietary Microsoft formats like they did with the previously-archived Feynman lectures in physics (in Silverlight). Now, however, I know that Bill Gates was praising it as a parent of school-age children and wasn't subtly implying a future Microsoft takeover of sorts having been the former chairman and CEO; I think it's great that the Khan Academy is embracing a technology that is too often wrongfully called illegal for various reasons. Given that the Khan Academy has gotten very good press, hopefully BitTorrent will gain a better reputation among the wider media types through this collaboration.

     

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    xenomancer (profile), Feb 11th, 2011 @ 8:42pm

    
    

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    Dammit, you beat me to it. Look out for their ear slugs (commonly known as lawyers).

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Feb 11th, 2011 @ 9:46pm

    
    

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    http://www.khanacademy.org/
    
    Just tested it and it is working, maybe is something on your end, have you tried a webproxy or a proxy?

     

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    JEDIDIAH, Feb 14th, 2011 @ 9:43am

    
    

    The man trying to keep a good protocol down...

    Yes. Let's continue to smear a perfectly good technology with FUD and make all of the claims about it a self-fulfilling as people are scared away from it for no good reason.
    
    Bit Torrent is nothing more than distributed (rather than centralized) distribution mechanism. If you have no problems with your stuff being copied, the DRM and lockdown provided by websites that use Flash are of no value and possibly a hinderance.

     

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