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Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads?
Max Sayre writes "Have you ever tried to download an operating system update only to have it fail and have to start all over? What about patches for your favorite games? World of Warcraft already uses Bittorrent technology as a way to distribute large amounts of content at a lower cost to the company and faster speeds to all of their clients. So why haven't they replaced the standard downloading options built into any major OS? Companies like Opera are including the downloading of torrents in their products already and extensions have been written for Firefox to download torrents in-browser. Every day Bittorrent traffic is growing. Sites like OpenBittorrent already exist and DHT doesn't even require a tracker. So why isn't everyone doing it? Is it finally time to see all downloads replaced with Bittorrent?"
Nah, 0 seeds, 3790 peers (all on 99.9%) ... DOUBLE FFFFFUUUUUU
Competition, man. It solves all. There's probably hundreds, if not thousands, of ISPs in his area alone that offer an unlimited data plan. They're just invisible!
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
Until then it's a tool for nerds to get their porn faster.
11+ Million World of Warcraft players can't be wrong...
OK, the porn market is bigger than that - but the porn torrent market? I wonder.
Everybody's always picking on Ayn Rand.
Well, she just needs to man up and deal with it.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Adam Smith did a coin trick at an Economics summit way back when. After taking the Prime Minister's gold piece in one hand and making it appear in another, then sending it back to the other hand without apparently moving it; he opened both hands and the coin was gone. The Prime Minister was amused, and after a few minutes, the Prime Minister politely asked for his coin back. Adam Smith replied that it was in his invisible hand, and if only he could locate that hand, could he actually return it.
The rest is history, heavily edited and re-edited as it's been misreported over the ages.