Re: OT: Bittorrent? What the...?

It came to pass that on 18 Dec 2005, jlavigne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scribed
thusly to all in alt.smokers.pipes the following inspiration:

> On 18 Dec 2005 13:10:35 -0800, handcannons@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> It's a tool to distribute files by downloading it in pieces from
>> multiple sources instead of one server the way you have traditionally
>> downloaded files. I've never found it to be worth all the hype, I still
>> get far better download speeds from USNET, HTTP or FTP..
>>
>> http://www.bittorrent.com/introduction.html
>
> It is not JUST for speed. From a slow server, you can indeed get better
> speeds using FTP. The big advantage to a torrent is the lack of
> centralization.
>
> The files are not hosted on a particular server. They are hosted at each
> person's computer that has the file and is seeding. The more seeders and
> peers there are, the faster the overall transfer will be.
>
> For large files, such as Linux Distro's, etc, it is a fantastic system.
> Unfortunaely, it is also very popular with the file sharing crowd, which
> gives it the stigma of being equivalent to Napster, ie: used for theft of
> copyrighted materials.

Joe, just posted my post and saw this! Helps quite a bit--thanks!

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