I believe that BT wasn't created as a Piracy Protocol, but rather as a way to spread the burden of downloading large files from a server, a task at which it is supremely awesome. :o)
BT has lots of shortcomings as a tool for piracy, it's just that its strengths are so strong that people live with them. W On 11/03/2008, David Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree a well-seeded torrent can be pretty quick. But the > protocol/clients/users only seed for a very limited time, or not at all. > The result is most torrents are poorly seeded, and thus slower than > downloading from a well-provisioned webserver. Said another way, > Bittorrent generally sacrifices speed in order to protect pirates. > > That said, S3 has the potential to have very powerful, fast seeds, and > to make the torrent always download fast. What I'm curious is if they > actually do. Or if they use exploit the reduced speed expectations of > torrent users and instead seed the file slower than had the user just > downloaded it right from the webserver. > > > -david > > > 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 > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
