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Global market vs. north american centric services. Also, there's obviously a lot more going on in the entire bittorrent ecosystem than just video. Considering t
by trotsky 16y ago
Global market vs. north american centric services. Also, there's obviously a lot more going on in the entire bittorrent ecosystem than just video. Considering the respective market sizes, i'm surprised bittorent's total reach isn't 50x.
Bittorrent Inc. wasn't trying to make any of those points though, they were just trying to say hey look at how huge our reach is! Except that reach will be considerably diminished as soon as you're taking money (or charging it) to promote some content to your users.
Personally, I think P2P is a non-issue in the future of content delivery. Bandwidth is cheap and getting cheaper and torrents provide a significantly lower performance and less reliable channel than hosted servers. I am loathe to use torrents even to pirate content, I'll be damned if I want to pay for it and let you abuse my outbound too.