[m0nty]

> the bad connotation due to piracy made this protocol not standard

Back when Resilio Sync was known as Bittorrent Sync, I proposed it as a file-sharing solution between multiple locations for the company I was working for. Immediately returned with an emphatic refusal to use any kind of software that had "Bittorrent" in the name, regardless of what it was for.

This is the same company where they picked up I had "Bittorrent Software" installed on my work laptop, and the people who ran the auditing software freaked out because, you know, it's Bittorrent! I told them it was a single icon in my PortableApps folder but they just kept saying "There's a Bittorrent client on your PC, you could be fired!" until I deleted the icon.

So yes, the fact it's associated with piracy has made a huge difference in some places.

[jgimenez]

I was kicked out of the public library once for running Syncthing, I guess because the firewall detected it as some sort of piracy tool