Not likely. It seems that frustrated developers were being helped by their friends.
On 11-Mar-08, at 9:43 AM, Bill Mccormick wrote: > Hmmm, I was unable to get the new iphone SDK from Apple's servers on > the weekend, but it was running very quickly on BitTorrent. > > Does anyone know if Apple is seeding BitTorrent for the iphone SDK? > > WoW also uses a BitTorrent derivative for distributing software > patches etc. It seems to be very fast if there are a few high speed > seeders. > > Billl > > On 3/11/08, Victor Grishchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, P2P as a content distribution method is known to be orders of >> magnitude cheaper than any "classic" solution. >> See the paper "Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption >> to the >> U.S. Peering Ecosystem" by P.B. Norton of Equinix >> http://www.blogg.ch/uploads/Internet-Video-Next-Wave-of-Disruption-v1.2.pdf >> >> Still, it is an open question whether costs are actually saved or >> just >> shifted to ISPs :) >> I think, P2P traffic localization techniques may actually save >> costs, on >> obvious reasons. >> >>> Saw this on /. a couple days back and noticed that the peer >>> efficiency >>> being reported by Bittorrent in this study is upwards of 96%. Not >>> bad! >>> Does anyone read Norwegian, and can they determine what the >>> (harmonic) >>> average download speed was for S3 versus Bittorrent? >>>> "An experiment was conducted recently by Norwegian broadcasting >>>> company ... 41,000 NOK ... 1,700 NOK. >> >> -- >> >> Victor >> >> _______________________________________________ >> p2p-hackers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >> > > > -- > Bill McCormick > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
