Jaime
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| Re: Steam(ing) pile of... said by LogicET:
I wonder why they don't use bit torrent themselves. Why pay 20k/month for that 700Mb pipe when you can torrent it? I doubt users would even know the difference.
Because Valve wants to control what content each person gets, that's the whole point of Steam distribution. Your client, and only your client can get updates/new games if you pay for them over the internet and such. If they go the way of BT than they don't control the content.
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| Re: Steam(ing) pile of... I don't see how that is so, unless the content they are serving is dynamic to each customer? there is no difference between bit torrent and ftp download except the way in which it is delivered. They can still require authentication to access the file. | |
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Jaime
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Huntington Beach, CA | Re: Steam(ing) pile of... It will be if they make it so you can buy games off steam, thus dynamic content. | |
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dvd536
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| said by Jaime  :
said by LogicET:
I wonder why they don't use bit torrent themselves. Why pay 20k/month for that 700Mb pipe when you can torrent it? I doubt users would even know the difference.
Because Valve wants to control what content each person gets, that's the whole point of Steam distribution. Your client, and only your client can get updates/new games if you pay for them over the internet and such. If they go the way of BT than they don't control the content.
Not to mention getting more than 8k/s on downloads. bit torrent SUCKS!
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| Odd that they didn't go with a tiered distribution architecture.
They can still maintain control by co-locating cache servers at some number of regional data centers.
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