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Re: BitTorrent is 35% of traffic ?


From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix () poptix net>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 23:11:55 -0600


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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