| Yes, but the thing is I don't think your average user has the 'right amount of bandwidth'. There's a big difference between downloading 4 meg files from different users and downloading 1 to 2GB files from a single user. According to Valenti in the article he will concede the 1% to hackers but he is saying 99% of the people have the bandwidth to download movies. I don't think that statement is true but even if that point is conceded that would mean a good proportion of the average user would need to have the upload bandwidth to serve the 99% (Valenti is talking about peer to peer networks). But more than the majority of broadband connections are not symmetrical and I just don't think have the upload bandwidth to upload in a 'reasonable' amount of time for the average user. |
