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Re: Is this a good thing for the net? said by a333:letting a lot of heavy users get their files faster, reducing strain on the network in general. That's illogical. If it were true that letting torrents run faster so they finish sooner (and consume bandwith for less time), torrent users wouldn't use QoS to slow down their torrents for the benefit of their web browsing, DNS lookups and VOIP.
I agree that distributed serving reduces network load compared to the load of multiple people downloading from one server. But, if distributed loads facilitate data transfer that wouldn't have been feasible from one server (because the provider wouldn't pay for enough bandwidth to meet the demand), then it has the effect of creating "virtual" servers which are unfunded on networks that didn't bargain for providing that kind of bandwidth.
It's an interesting challenge. But, let's not be coy about what's happening.
Mark |
