As Steam uses Bit Torrent-like technology for its distribution, is Shaw going to hear tons of screams during the Half-Life 2 release in 10 (or so) days?
I can imagine that people who buy a package online will be upset with a few gigs of data downloading at dial-up speeds.
Yes they will because as some peope above think that regardless of the fact that you PAY for using part of their network you have no right to use it at all and have no say whatsoever in what happens to the part you pay for. I bet Shaw kills that as well if they complain anbout bandwidth usage. HL2 is a few gigs x thousands if not millions and the BW ramps up quickly.
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reply to Minvaren Let me quash a little rumor that continues to keep popping up: Steam does not currently use Bit Torrent-like technology (IE: downloading directly from peers). Nor will it likely be used as the primary method of distribution ever because people would scream bloody murder at valve stealing their bandwidth.
The only two connections to Valve that have anything to do with BT are that they used BT to distribute video of in-game footage, and that they hired Bram Cohen (for whom Bit-torrent is only 1 little item in his resume that includes several entries referencing cryptology; which I suspect is the primary reason he works for them; BT and the like are only icing on the cake). -- Attention all decks! Brace for whining!
