I love days like this. They seem to happen every couple of years for us.. the press pits us (a fun little San Francisco tech company) up against a monolithic industry (like Mass Media a couple years ago, or the Cablecos most recently). Naturally, most of the viewing public assumes we're toast. My friends, for the second time in a row, its clear to us at BitTorrent that conversation wins over litigation.

Today we announced that Comcast and BitTorrent are officially friends (video). We're going to make sure that our products treat each other better because in doing so we create a better experience for our users. Most importantly, this is going to help the Internet community as a whole because we have committed to sharing whatever optimizations are made (to both the network and the application) with other ISPs and application developers through standards bodies (like the IETF and bittorrent.org). This is a win for BitTorrent (big B) and bittorrent (small b) and all of the popular applications on the Internet.

One of the better treatments on the deal we negotiated with Comcast was by Andy Patrizio at InternetNews. Here are some excerpts:

Comcast is migrating to cable da (more)...