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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?"
First Post! My first first post...
Kudos to the retarded morons who modded this insightful.
WoW downloads take ½ - 1 hour thru std. http or ftp download, the same download thru WoW BitTorrent update system takes 3 fucking days!
The only thing BitTorrent is good for is Blizzard pockets.
Reliable downloads has nothing to do with BitTorrent you can do it on http or ftp and it has been done for years.