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join:2005-07-07
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1 edit | reply to sjr
Re: what benefit to users?
Try lowering your upload rate some so you don't over saturate the connection and slow down your download acks. Uploading at full speed on BT isn't a good idea even with cable HSI, but if you're not d/l anything or surfing the web then it's ok to.
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Give me a 100% uncapped, unblocked, unthrottled, and stable 100/100 meg symmetrical interweb connection with really low pings to my apartment for cheap and I'll go away!  |
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sjr
join:2006-08-27
Osseo, MN
|  I am not really sure how the Bit Torrent video store will really be successful.
I am no bit torrent expert on how it works but it seems to me that if a company is making money off of a video or whatever file they are selling why would the user do anything be set the torrent to leech mode. What is the incentive to the user to share their bandwidth for uploading to anyone else? If this is the same crap drm files that other online video stores sell why use the slower torrent model and tie up your own uploading ability while you get the file? Also will the download be faster then a regular torrent file? On any file I have ever gotten off of a torrent the speed I have gotten is between 80kb/sec to 120kb/sec down while I am uploading at around 100kb/sec. Granted I have only done a few torrents so maybe that is not a normal speed for the dl but if that is what you get from this why would you do it when you could dl direct from a site at, in my case, 1mb/sec or faster?
It seems to me a video store with non drm content at less then what I can buy it at a Best Buy or Wal-Mart and at good dl speeds would be the only model that would work for selling videos, and if it is for rentals it would need to be also at good speed and equal or less then price then you would pay at the local video store.
Otherwise it doesnt seem like a very good plan. |
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