Re: Torrents and such

On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, joseph harris wrote:

> One thouight. How much do we know about how torrent users grow 
> up. Do they [or I suppose it is still will they] grow up to be 
> conventional law abiding citizens?

As a group, torrent users have already grown up. Compared to 
HTTP, transfers finish faster, and particularly for someting 
newly in demand, like recently released Linux software, the use 
of bittorrent can require as little as 1% of the bandwidth of the 
site sourcing the file when compared to HTTP.

They are like people who drive cars. What you care about is not 
the class of people who drive cars, but people who drive cars 
with something illicit in the trunk. You also care about the 
people who carry those illicit things on their bicycles or in 
their backpacks.

If you don't find yourself benefitting from using this protocol, 
then don't use it. But please classify more carefully. Rather 
than "torrent users", you might try "illicit suppliers", or 
"illicit downloaders".

If a new protocol comes along that out-performs bittorrent and 
everyone switches to it, then "torrent users" will vanish. But I 
suspect that the difficulties you are concerned about will 
remain, even through there would be no torrent users left.

... Chris

: chris smith ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
: nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit - cicero :


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