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Also in general, bittorrent is maily used to download copyrighted content illegally. I mean comeon, all bittorrent users know it and use it for that. It's a pi

• cookiecaper 16y ago
  There are significant deployments of BT among software vendors. You probably already know about them, but in case you don't, off the top of my head, Blizzard uses BitTorrent to distribute patches for WoW and most Linux distributions use torrents to distribute ISOs. Both perfectly legal, legitimate, and great uses of BitTorrent. I wish that BitTorrent usage was more prolific among legit large downloads too, it would really help with corruption, etc. BitTorrent is really the simplest way to fix a large file that mostly downloaded correctly but has a few corrupt chunks; the torrent client resolves that problem automatically for already-downloaded files and fixes it on-the-fly on downloads it handles. It is really annoying to download a 350MB service pack from Microsoft at 300kb/s and then have to download the whole thing again because "the file was corrupt". I don't know if MS just has shoddy servers or what but I've had that happen multiple times. Large torrent swarms, which Microsoft could easily populate itself but may not even need to, usually max out a client's connection and then the corruption thing would never happen. I should try to sell consulting services on torrents to MS at some point I guess.