Quote from: domokun on June 25, 2011, 12:55:19 PM

A botnet CAN be against the will of the owners.

That's just plain wrong. Please inform yourself before posting nonsense.

BTC itself is a Peer-to-Peer network. A Botnet is a network of infected computers, controlled by one or a few persons remotely.

Quote from: antares on June 26, 2011, 04:48:49 AM

has anyone ever considered that bitcoin pretty much is a botnet itself?

No, because this is stupid, see above.

Quote from: antares on June 26, 2011, 04:48:49 AM

I mean, really, people, you are all doing distributed work which is controlled by a piece of software over the network.

Peer to Peer != Botnet!

I can only repeat: Inform yourself before posting.

Quote from: antares on June 26, 2011, 04:48:49 AM

Anyone hearing a bell ringing? The only difference is that most Bitcoiners run the software willingly.

And that's a huge differance. A differance between 10 years of jail vs a well-used open source project, for starters.

It's hilarious how you're even quoting wikipedia twice, but fail to read (or understand) the very first sentence:

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A botnet is a collection of compromised computers, termed bots, that are used for malicious purposes. A computer becomes a bot when it runs a file, typically from a drive-by download, that has bot software embedded in it. Botnets are controlled en masse via protocols such as IRC and http.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet

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