{"id":303,"date":"2017-11-27T14:57:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T14:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse\/"},"modified":"2017-11-27T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T14:57:47","slug":"the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inside Story of BitTorrent\u2019s Bizarre Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/01\/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse\/amp'>The Inside Story of BitTorrent\u2019s Bizarre Collapse<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Perhaps the lesson here is that sometimes technologies are not products. And they\u2019re not companies. They\u2019re just damn good technologies. Vint Cerf did not land a Google-size fortune for having helped invent the TCP\/IP protocols that power the Internet (though he did get the U.S. National Medal of Technology). What\u2019s more, to be successful, a startup requires both a great idea for a product or service, and a great idea for how to make money off of it. One without the other will fail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inside Story of BitTorrent\u2019s Bizarre Collapse Perhaps the lesson here is that sometimes technologies are not products. And they\u2019re not companies. They\u2019re just damn good technologies. Vint Cerf did not land a Google-size fortune for having helped invent the TCP\/IP protocols that power the Internet (though he did get the U.S. National Medal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}