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Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ?

  • From: Matthew S. Hallacy
  • Date: Fri Nov 05 00:12:57 2004

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:59:42AM +0900, Tony Li wrote:
> 
> 
> For those not familiar, BitTorrent is a file sharing app that is 
> commonly
> used for exchanging full movies.  As such, folks are moving gigabyte
> files regularly and it's not surprising that this is detectable.
> Shuffling .mp3's around would be trivial by comparison.
> 
> Tony

It's also used for distributing large patches (XP SP2), the latest
ISO's of various (free) operating systems, any pretty much anything else
that would create a flash crowd load on a system that it could not handle
without distributing the traffic amoung the people downloading. 

This isn't a made-for-pirating-software/audio program, don't treat it as
such. 

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