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Originally Posted by Rathji
I wish they would kill BT, not because I think it will stop illegal file sharing but because it totally rapes bandwidth.
I can sit here at the Uni and have 4 fools around me torrenting Anime and giggling like school girls when the guy beside them can't load a webpage in less than 10 seconds. You have one person, downloading 4 times the content in the same time period off of Usenet, and I never even notice it.
Just boggles the mind, but I guess everyone only cares about themselves, which is ironic because Usenet is faster, more reliable, and retention enables stuff to be downloaded way longer than you are able to using torrents. So they would be better off with Usenet anyway.
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That's the University's problem. They should cut off access to the default BT ports although I'm sure some people will figure it out eventually. They should also just put a notice in the terms of usage that bitorrent use is prohibited and have some nasty consequences for anybody caught doing it.
But in your own home, BT is absolutely a good thing.