that holds 6.4GB, it's roughly 14.5 hours to download.
A T1 is 1.5mb/s. A cable modem is typically up to 2mb/s, though I know
people with 5. My work connection is 3.7mb/s at this exact moment.
I know people who do download rips of movies, but they are even a small
subset of the larger goup that hangs out online. Probably a ratio of about
1:80 in a group of geeks.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Haggerty, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:19 AM
Subject: Question
> Here's a question a friend asked me the other day, maybe someone on this
> list has some ideas about it.
>
> There is a lot of hub-bub about people downloading movies and burning
> them down to DVDs. The idea that this practice could become widespread
> like downloading MP3s is doesn't seem logical, because the time it takes
> to actually download and burn a DVD movie is so long (greater than 1
> day) most people would not bother. Additionally, the quality of the
> movie you download varies so widely, many people would become frustrated
> and give up on the process entirely before it could become a real
> problem.
>
> Given a high-speed connection (up to a T1) and a high capacity server at
> the other end, how fast could you download a movie and burn it onto a
> DVD?
>
> M
>
>
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