 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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Re: Is this a good thing for the net? said by NetAdmin1:I would like to point out that more BT clients are now setting defaults that eliminate this issue. Most BT clients will shutdown the transfer once the user has reached an Upload to Download ratio of greater than or equal to 1. Users have to manually change that option to seed indefinitely. Which is great if people actually update their software. Considering the number of SQL slammer packets I still see hitting my firewall to this day, forgive me if I remain skeptical that this will make a difference anytime soon. |
| No, the stereotypical heavy BT user is someone who compulsively downloads and seeds to curate a collection of data which in a lot of cases they don't even use in its entirety. It's a habit thing, but it's not hugely technical.
There's no reason why mass BT users need smarts to shove data around. They don't need their machines patched up to date. Hell, a lot even use Windows- go look at the stats for how many 'doze machines are patched up to date (yeah, I know Windows Update is slow and clumsy, but still).
Chances are, you average BT junky isn't running a jailed client on an OpenBSD box- they're running uTorrent, Vuze or whatever on the malware-riddled Windows PC that they use for everything. While some may accuse this view of assuming the lowest common denominator, I'd say it's more regression to the mean. |
