Chuck U Farley
@sbs.com |  I thought Steam used BitTorrent?
Didn't Valve hire Bram Cohen. Why do they need so much bandwidth just to seed? |
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LaZ3R
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join:2003-01-17
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
| Who cares! They don't charge us extra money for it... If anything, you should be happy some companies like Valve actually update their games/servers so frequently to provide best possibly gameplay.
It makes me wonder... How much mbps do MMORPG servers take up, example: How much bandwidth does blizzard have in total on all of its World of Warcraft servers?
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DeeZeee
@tierzero.net | reply to Chuck U Farley
Bram Cohen was hired by blizzard for their torrent updater. Valve doesnt seed, nor did it hire Bram. |
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Combat Chuck
Too Many Cannibals
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join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA
| said by DeeZeee :
Bram Cohen was hired by blizzard for their torrent updater. Valve doesnt seed, nor did it hire Bram.
Sorry but AFAIK he hasn't ever worked directly for Blizzard and he has in fact worked for valve.
see »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
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In late 2003, Cohen was hired by Valve Software to work on Steam, their digital distribution system introduced for Half-Life 2. However, by early 2005 he was no longer at Valve, and his primary source of income once again became donations from BitTorrent users.
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