cost of doing business

Mon Apr 18 16:13:38 UTC 2005

On 18 Apr 2005, at 11:33, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Joe Abley wrote:
>
>> I don't think that's true. I have seen bittorrent clients running on 
>> machines that have good connectivity (>>typical North American 
>> residential; say 100M access to a data centre on the east coast). 
>> With only moderately-popular torrents (think fan movies like 
>> fanimatrix or starship exeter, a week or so after the slashdot effect 
>> has died down) such a client can easily seed at 10-20Mbit/s.
>
> Yes yes, it's of course technically possible. It's no problem to 
> saturate a 100M either if you have a decent computer.

My point was not just that it was technically possible, but rather that 
with active filesharing clients running it's something that a naive 
user can easily do, today -- no future killer apps required.

Joe