toddinpal
join:2002-09-18
Palatine, IL
| said by ss4vegito7  :p2p is the worst idea. Why would u want valve to start using your connection for something they should be paying for! Eating up your bandwidth and all other resources. U pay $50 a pop for their game and don't get the packaging I would hope that the money that should go to distribution and packaging goes to their internet provider! For the same reason I donate my spare CPU cycles to Folding@Home and United Devices. Although my household is heavy Internet user compared to most, we don't nearly consume the 6M/600K service we have. Especially during the off hours. Maybe they give me something in return, I don't really care as the bandwidth is being under utilized. Someone might as well get a benefit from it.
I'm also talking in generic terms, not about any specific game, software, or update to download. P2P could be part of the utility computing infrastructure people dream about. So much like how electric power utilities in California pay customers for their excess generated solar energy, perhaps someone could/world pay us to our un-utilized bandwidth. Besides, getting the data from nearby other users places a lot less load on the overall network than having a centralized set of servers access only from the edges.
-tl |
