stopping bittorrent

[Stewart C. Russell]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> Given the asymetry of most people's connection, something like jigdo
> makes much more sense.  let the centralized servers that have the
> outgoing bandwidth deal with the load.

For software distribution, maybe. For distributing live music 
recordings, however, BT is fantastic.

It's kind of taper lore that BT is at its best when a show is 
distributed from a domestic ADSL line. That way, it might take 10-12 
hours to complete the download, but at the end of that time, everyone 
has a complete copy. Fast servers mean that people hop on, leech, then 
disconnect.

  Stewart

(who has probably spent far too long on sharingthegroove.org)

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