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Yeah. The article is like "everyone at BitTorrent Inc said Cohen is brilliant, so he's brilliant". BitTorrent is a shit way to move files that only makes sense
by zigzigzag 10y ago
Yeah. The article is like "everyone at BitTorrent Inc said Cohen is brilliant, so he's brilliant". BitTorrent is a shit way to move files that only makes sense if your users are willing to subsidise your bandwidth for you. If you look at how big files are moved on the net in practice it's all professional CDNs. BitTorrent is hardly used outside piracy.
- icebraining 10y agoBitTorrent is a shit way to move files How so? As far as I know it's actually pretty efficient. If you look at how big files are moved on the net in practice it's all professional CDNs. BitTorrent is hardly used outside piracy. And when the first CDN appeared, they were also hardly used. That approach would disqualify any business except copycats.
- StavrosK 10y agoNot only efficient, but also supports file integrity, resuming, parallelization, etc. It's a fantastic protocol.
- abricot 10y agoExactly - I live in an area where lots of people have 50+ Mb symmetric connections, and BitTorrent gave us all a dream that we could all use those connections without everything having to be transferred over the backbone.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoFrom the article: >170 million people used the protocol every month, according to the company’s website. Facebook and Twitter use it to distribute updates to their servers. Florida State University has used it to distribute large scientific datasets to its researchers. Blizzard Entertainment has used BitTorrent to let players download World of Warcraft. The company’s site boasts that the protocol moves as much as 40 percent of the world’s Internet traffic each day. Doesn't sound like a "shit protocol that only pirates use" to me.