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BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic
Pranjal writes "According to a reuters article on Yahoo, BitTorrent accounts for an astounding 35 percent of all the traffic on the Internet -- more than all other peer-to-peer programs combined -- and dwarfs mainstream traffic like Web pages." The article goes on to talk about how BT is no longer beneath the radar of those who like to sue file sharers.
devouring more than a third of the Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking notice
Jack Valenti started to wonder why his goat-porn downloads were getting slower every day?
Trolling is a art,
If it gets any higher maybe Microsoft or Disney will buy them and start charging gobs of money.
Kirk Cameron is HOT now!
Too bad he only has eyes for Jesus, though.
Which means he's into liberal Jews. Where's Joe Lieberman when you need him?
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
[ob. Slashdot cliche]You must be new here.[/cliche]
The condescending part is quite certainly a a valid point (though in my view, a justified reaction to the rampant fanboyism), but unnecssary is entirely debatable.
First, the poster was bragging about his downloading large amounts of anime that is commercially available on DVD (in fact, linking to the authorized distribution), something that is heavily frowned upon by the fansub community. I happen to think that the fact that most of the anime companies are willing to look the other way or even encourage fansubbing is a very cool thing on their part, and idiots like this who go around bragging that BT allows them to get around paying for their entertainment is exactly the behaviour that will cause them to crack down on BT.
Second, my point that there's much better things to do in college is very valid. Even though I have a nice job where I have all the bandwidth I want, the computers & geek toys that I want, and have the freedom to work pretty much whenever I want, I still miss the freedom of college and the sense of community that was available to me at the time. I do know people who wasted their free time in college with $HABIT (there's a bunch of them) rather than experiencing some of the great joys of life - I watched a good friend from 7-12th grade retreat from being an active, social individual to someone who sat in his anime filled room while piling on the pounds. I suppose that may be his ultimate, fulfilling goal in life, and if so, I guess more power to him, but as noted, I think there's better things in life.
Geeks (myself included) often have a hard time finding people with which to be social and the temptation is to take the easy way out via computers and the like is strong. I met the loves (platonic and romantic) of my life by getting out and doing things, not by having a hard drive full of illegal anime.
But mod me down if you like.