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BitTorrent Beefs Up Network Capabilities

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the defeating-the-purpose dept.

1sockchuck writes "BitTorrent Inc. is boosting its network capacity as it prepares to become a centralized hub for legal video content. In May, BitTorrent announced a deal with Warner Brothers to distribute its TV and movie content via the BT platform. It has now lined up IP transit for streaming videos at one gigabit per second."

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  1. Bittorrent -- distro paid for by consumers by Zzesers92 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Am I the only one who feels like the fool when I'm PAYING twice for content? Once to download, and a second time to upload that same data to the next fool?

    I'm not an "info should be free" wacko by any means. But I'm also not going to sacrifice my precious bandwidth to make WB money. If you want to charge me for content, you pay for the fat pipes so that the consumer (us all) are satisfied.
  2. Re:1GB/Sec by jonnythan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Huh. A typical DVD is 9MB/s.

    A typical HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movie is going to be 15-30MB/s.

    I'm not sure what kind of 1.7MB/s movie I'd be paying for.