Microsoft’s War Against BitTorrent Ends In a RickRoll
February 20th, 2010 admin
It’s hard to condone the act of RickRolling , but desperate times call for desperate measures. In a recent blog post by Wi-Fi convention provider Codify, excessive BitTorrent traffic at last year’s Tech.Ed conference in Australia forced them to take drastic action against anyone trying to file share. The cruel, yet effective weapon of choice was Rick Astley, and his now infamous song “Never Gonna Give You Up” . According to Codify the problem with BitTorrent users on a public Wi-Fi network isn’t bandwidth, but excessive port usage . “At this point you have to remember that we have a heap of bandwidth available. Some clients chomping through a lot of …
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