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Re: bit torrent
said by Shack  :Not really, it sums up why the MPAA is going afterbittorrent, a similar tech is being used by several gamemakers to distribute patches, which is a very legite use. As well as the distribution of many open source projects. Thanks, I'm well aware of what honest uses the protocol has. The point though is that most of the BT traffic online is not for anything legitimate. It's primarily trading of copyrighted material by a few orders of magnitude. I've analyzed it's use in a user-base of about 200,000 people and it's almost all piracy related.
I'm aware of the utopian uses for BT. Sadly, reality is showing otherwise. It's a shame too, as BT is most promising.
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