On Wed August 23 2006 05:30, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Mittwoch 23 August 2006 12:41 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > > Le mercredi 23 août 2006 à 11:30 +0200, Christian Perrier a écrit : > > > I have a few doubts about the knowledge of the average user for > > > Bittorrent. For sure, having BitTorrent helps reducing the load > > > because all users that have some know-how with it will use > > > it...but making it the main distribution mode...ahem.....I think > > > that most of the users will stick to ISO images downloads. > > > > When a nice bittorrent frontend is installed, the user will only > > have to click on the link to start the download. This is true for > > Windows and Linux. > > If, not when. There is no bittorrent client in any Suggests: or > Recommends: line of any of the browsers in Debian. And I guess that > most system do not have one intalled. > However, http and ftp will always work as that is the same method as > the one used to access the download page.
A browser Suggests: or Recommends: is not really needed as most bittorrent clients appear to be standalone programs, it is also a little silly for browsers to suggest or recommend clients for every mime-type out there. "http and ftp will always work" is a really good point... someone mentioned `corporate filtering,' I think bandwidth limiting by ISPs would be a bigger problem. Shouldn't be a deal killer though, just don't use bittorrent as the only method. Best, imo, would be a new torrent-like protocol and some serious PR to minimize the possibility of it being seen and used as just another p2p network the RIAA (whoever) doesn't like. - Bruce