Klonk Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:00:42 -0500 veschprigt mroktar Jon Kamm <kammagic@comcast.net> [re: [Yello] Bit Torrents]:
Your computer can handle only so much flow of information, and at a particular speed. The potential exists that should you latch into a torrent 'pipeline' that is superior in capacity and speed to your own, such as a fan of a particular band working at a huge corperation, and hacks into their computer to send and rec. his own files. The computer sees the outlet and starts seeding more than just what your buddy wants to send.
Complete horsepuckey. Your source sucks. .....
If there were a reliable tap (flow control), and filter to verify that you only get what you want, and you only send out the packets of that particular file, not whatever is running through the torrent you signed into, then I would use them, but for now, there are too many unanswered questions, and unexpected goodies to make me comfortable using bit torrents right now.
Absolute FUD. The content of a torrent is fixed. Certain clients can even pick out desired files from the list in a torrent, instead of getting the whole thing. Adding something to a torrent after seeding it munges the hash. And as for flow control, check the switches, bitches. Default limits are in place, custom limits are wholly and completely under user control. FUD, FUD, FUD. --gcr