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dadkins 
| reply to GOLFnSUN
Re: hell ya.
i use BT for alot of things above and beyond piracy.
haev you ever tried to collaborate with other musical artists who're 1400miles away using raw uncompressed audio while trying to build a drum and bass track from the ground up?
ever try to send them that file via a slower transfer method?
Trust me. bittorrent is an effective way to share large files with other people. BT is a tool, much like a gun, a computer or even a dump truck. How someone uses it is entirely seperate from the original purpose.
by your logic, TK, we should 1)ban guns because people use them to kill people, 2)ban computers because people use them to steal other people's identity, and 3) ban dump trucks because people use them to hide dead bodies occasionally.
doesn't make sense to me, but hey, it's your rose colored (or anti-piracy colored, really) glasses. |
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neonhomer
Honoray Mythbuster
Premium
join:2004-01-27
Edgewater, FL
clubs: | IIRC, Blizzard Entertainment uses Bittorrent to transfer updates for World of Warcraft... |
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jester121
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | reply to Work
That's surprising -- your files are shared and served by that many people? BT isn't really helpful for 1:1 sharing... |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| reply to neonhomer
.. and since you only download them, you should not be affected by the torrents, right?
Or wait.. is blizzard using the last mile end user to distribute their software in which they are being paid for by the end user? If so, then other "end users" are uploading the files FOR Blizzard. (I know the answer to this and am being obvious about something)
It's not your fault that Blizzard updates are being slowed down.. it's not Comcast or any other ISP's fault.. it's Blizzard's fault for not running their own data centers to upload the patches for you to download.
Blizzard, like any other revenue generating business, should not be distributing their patches on the backs of the ISP's last mile users.. they are collecting money each month from the end user in order to operate their business.
Where is the outrage from the paying users of Blizzard for this shoddy practice in the first place?
Sandvine affects upload streams of BT.. |
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gopnick
join:2005-01-07
Benton, AR | Wow, if "that ain't the telco line," I don't know what is.
Do you work for AT&T?
If Blizzard's customers have a problem with it (they clearly do not) they can buy software elsewhere. That's capitalism. |
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SimbaTLK1
Rawrrr
join:2001-09-07
Bethel Park, PA
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| reply to jester121
said by jester121 :That's surprising -- your files are shared and served by that many people? BT isn't really helpful for 1:1 sharing... ...I was wondering the same thing :-\
--Matt |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| reply to gopnick
Thanks for the laugh.
Your focus is on the wrong area... for one, I'm a former customer.. dropped them for all their BS .. tired of their faulty patches and tired of their inability to put out a maintenance schedule that doesn't work.. tired of them allowing cheats on the system and tired of them taking away resources because of their faulty programming.
Do I work for AT&T? Give me a break.. what a total and complete moronic, stupid, idiotic come back... if you knew anything, or bothered, you'd know else wise. |
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