> Paul Hoffman / VPNC wrote: > What Michael said. This is probably below the radar for now > because, so far, BitTorrent trading of large files (regular TV > shows and pirated movies) is more popular in Asia and Europe > than in the US. Indeed, I made that very point on Nanog a couple months ago. But it will arrive in America sooner or later and I don't see anything stopping that freight train. Plenty of overseas torrent sites (such as www.torrentbits.org, located in the NL) are in English, no language barrier here. > Even on the well-known BitTorrent ports, there is a *huge* > amount of trading going on. Approaching a petabyte per day (that's right, 1K terabytes) me thinks. And it might get worse soon: double-layer DVD burners are out (I bought one for $79 last week), in a short while we will see blank double-layer DVDs at the current DVD-R prices ($0.40 a pop) and images that are 8.7 GBytes instead of 4.7 GBytes. Christmas 2005: blue ray DVDs :-( $DEITY help ISPs. <conspiracy theory> Cisco is supporting 10+ Gbyte file swap to sell more CRS-1s. Juniper is supporting 10+ Gbyte file swap to sell more T-640s. </conspiracy theory> > To make things more difficult for the law, a good chunk of > that trading is completely legitimate, allowed-use music > trading of artists who actively encourage trading of live > show recordings. And some that encourage distributing software and/or software updates that way. I foresee small players publishing a torrent instead of having their FTP site, and seed it only with a few low-bandwidth machines. BitTorrent was not originally designed to swap illegal content. Technically speaking, hard to take it down too. Last week, I successfully tested resuming multiple downloads with re-published torrents pointing to a different tracker than the original one that was taken down. No problem. And it's not such a big deal to run a big site, apparently: > TorrentBits.org is situated on a dedicated server in the Netherlands. > For the moment we have monthly running costs of approximately â 213. Private torrent site for 100,000 users.... Michel.
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