Bitcoin is and will always be real currency as long as enough people believe it is valuable (i.e. can be used to transfer value), regardless of how much it upsets hn user la64710.
What goes around, comes around. I'm glad this is happening. Gitty and friends should be driven out of business for their absurd stunt they pulled with image search.
Also blame OS vendors refusal to standardize on the graphical GUI equivalent of stdio/ascii. All I want is bare-minimal GUI support (pixel placement and "pointer" events. That's all.
Instead we get apple, google, microsoft, and gnome/qt all doing their incompatible thing.
So until they do, expect the beatings to continue. /shrugs
Bitcoin is here to stay.