On 19 Apr 2007, at 14:39, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
James Cox wrote:
I hope that if this gets past the various layers of governance and
gets budget to become a 'real' project, some effort into hooking
up into bittorrent (I'm sure Bram could come up with some trickery
to have certified users (ie, license fee payers ;)) only which
would permit some kind of higher bandwidth product.
I've never really felt comfortable with distributed P2P for content
that I've paid for. It's great when bittorrent is used for
transfering ubuntu iso's around (as it's members of a community
helping others in the same community), it's less great but at least
makes some sense when it's used for piracy (as it's still a members
of a community helping other members in a community, all be it an
illicit one) but when it comes to content that I'm paying somebody
to send to me, I don't see why I should waste my upload bandwith
for someone else's business model. Even with content from the BBC,
I pay the licence fee so why should I pay in bandwidth as well?
Fair enough, but i love the fact I can grab an ISO or ... er...
certain content very rapidly using the P2P model. Since I pay a flat
rate anyhow, and i've got loads of upload bandwidth to use, I'm not
that fussed. :)
- james
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