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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. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203
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