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		nemoniac on June 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BitTorrent is selling for $140M to Justin Sun and ... Please correct the title to say that it's the BitTorrent trade mark that has been sold, not the technology.

asdsa5325 on June 19, 2018 [–]

I don't think you are correct. They bought the company, including all of their products.

nemoniac on June 20, 2018 | [–]

I don't mean products. The BitTorrent protocol is open.

"The BitTorrent specification is free to use and many clients are open source"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Implementations

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