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Google Censors Its Own Education Investment in BitTorrent Google’s blacklisting of file-sharing networks and Homeland Security seizures of the BitTorrent just became a lot more complicated: Khan Academy, producer of the wildly popular open access YouTube courses, is now distributing content over the BitTorrent Network. Ironically, Google awarded the nonprofit millions to expand its network, inadvertently legitimizing claims that BitTorrent is actually used for far more than just pirated entertainment material.

Google Censors Its Own Education Investment in BitTorrent

Google’s blacklisting of file-sharing networks and Homeland Security seizures of the BitTorrent just became a lot more complicated: Khan Academy, producer of the wildly popular open access YouTube courses, is now distributing content over the BitTorrent Network. Ironically, Google awarded the nonprofit millions to expand its network, inadvertently legitimizing claims that BitTorrent is actually used for far more than just pirated entertainment material.

(via infoneer-pulse)

Source: Fast Company

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