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Hollywood Looks to BitTorrent for Distribution

Posted by timothy on from the who-is-this-cerf-guy-anyhow dept.

daria42 writes "Vinton Cerf, who wrote the original TCP/IP protocol and is currently chairman of ICANN, said this week he had recently discussed BitTorrent with at least two interested movie producers. 'I know personally for a fact that various members of the movie industry are really getting interested in how to use the Internet--even BitTorrent--as a distributed method for distributing content,' Cerf said. 'I've spoken with several movie producers in the last month.'"

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  1. Quick, call the MPAA and have them stop this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ... before it's too late for them to outlaw P2P.

  2. Cert is a total corporate hack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    He needs to move on to greener pastures.

    SLASHDOTJIHAD

  3. Bittorrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I'm posting AC because I am tired of losing karma to this question. No one seems to like when I bring it up but, that doesn't change the fact that Bittorrent does not live up to the hype!

    Every time I use it, I have to spend an inordinate amount of time "tuning" that particular download in order to get the best throughput. This typically results in speeds of approximately 30kBps up and 60-150kBps down. The very smallest swarm that I have ever connected to, had 23 seeds and 150 peers.

    These speeds are awful!! When connecting to a FTP server that is not too heavily loaded, I can achieve speeds of 350-400kBps down. I've never come even close to that with Bittorrent! It just doesn't live up to the hype.

    Now, there will likely be a flood of posts flaming me about not having BT or my firewall properly configured. I hope these answers will presage them.

    Yes, I do know what I am doing. I am a network expert holding a CCIE amongst other certs.

    Yes, I know how to use BT. It is more difficult than it should be but, it isn't hard.

    Yes, the upload/download ratio was tuned correctly for my connection. In fact, I tune it per download and if the download goes on for a long time, I have to tune it in mid session to maintain optimal speeds.

    Yes!!! The appropriate ports are open!

    NO, I haven't tried changing the MTU or TCP windowing to suit Bittorrent. These attributes are properly set for the network and provide optimal performance for all other applications including FTP and SFTP. If they are not adequate for BT then the problem lies with BT.