Heh, ya, a pretty big server farm would be needed. Thus I agree, P2P is the way to go for huge-volume distribution.
I just wanted to make clear that not all P2P is created equal, and the very traits that make Bittorent ideal for your piracy needs make it non-ideal for your legitimate hosting needs. -david Bill Mccormick wrote: > Well... how big a server farm would you need to simultaneously > download 87000 copies of open solaris? So there's a form of > performance advantage in reducing the resources (servers) needed to > distribute content. > > But you're right about speed, even with my slow DSL (1.2 mbps > downlink) I almost always get better download performance from a file > server than from bit torrent. > > To categorize Bittorrent generically, it's about distributing files. > For sure, most of them are in violation of U.S. copyright. So maybe > we're in violent agreement. > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > 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
