BitTorrent May Prove Too Good to Quash

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 15, 2005 @04:00AM from the playing-a-game-of-whac-a-mole dept.

gollum123 writes "There is an article on washignton post on bittorrent where the author discusses why BitTorrent is here to stay. According to the author it is being increasingly used to distribute software and entertainment legally. It also mentions that in BitTorrent, unlike many other file-sharing programs, legitimate use doesn't amount to a token minority. It's central to this program's existence. It concludes by saying that the MPAA may be able to drive BitTorrent movie downloads into what Green called "the dark corners of the Internet," but this program isn't going to go away. It might, however, be just what movie studios and record labels need to market and distribute their own content efficiently on the Web."

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Re:Yeah, We figured that one out... by Kiryat+Malachi · 2005-03-15 05:04 · Score: 0, Redundant

Using a custom client built to disable uploading is leeching in a BT network.

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Blizzard is using BT to distribute patches to WOW by mikech@rbsgi · 2005-03-15 06:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

I noticed that after installing World Of Warcraft and signing on to Blizzard, their patch download application suggested that in order to improve my download rate, I open a range of ports on my firewall. These were ports similar (1000 off) to the standard range of BT ports.