Will BT die ?

[Hanz™]

Bittorrent will become like usenet. It'll never quite die.

[Skiz]

Bittorrent only hurts the ISPs via enormous bandwidth usage. There is no advantage for them, even if you're looking at total profits through a customer base....

i don't think this is correct. file sharers are the primary cause of technological advances in residential broadband, which ISP's are able to charge premiums for. it is precisely because of the bandwidth usage of BT that ISP's love it. if not for BT, the average home user would still have a 1/256 or something and would have no reason to upgrade. prices would inevitably have to fall and there would be WAY less demand for faster connections. some demand would obviously still exist, but it would be limited to the small number of users that are YouTube addicted or download lots from online media stores. the question is not "would you disconnect your internet" it's "would you have a 10mbit pipe and pay $50/mo. for it?"

ISP's are undoubtedly on our side in this.

Are you serious?

ISPs are far from "on our side". The proof is in the major ISPs such as AT&T who have completely eliminated the bittorrent protocol altogether on their lines and Comcast who have been so aggressive in throttling connections and utilizing technology to limit all peer-to-peer applications, not just bittorrent.

As for the faster connections, that's just the nature of technology and are due to nothing more than the evolution of the Internet.

[sawt_eldamir]

i believe it will be sooner than anybody think
who could believe that oink and demonoid will fall that easy ?

soon it will fall but as the most of you said " there will be a new way to share files "

[p1r4t3]

bt will die when it will. why make useless predictions and let out info.. btw I ve always felt fst is the one place because of which bt could die, cos riaa, bla bla could get their invites from here easily. Why not see the truth and blame fst for once? Also some site admins info got leaked from here even

so close fst, and make bt secure

[Skiz]

bt will die when it will. why make useless predictions and let out info.. btw I ve always felt fst is the one place because of which bt could die, cos riaa, bla bla could get their invites from here easily. Why not see the truth and blame fst for once? Also some site admins info got leaked from here even

so close fst, and make bt secure

There are 1,001 other sites which trade invites, so careful where you point that finger.

FST also doesn't do anything to put trackers in harms way, members who trade invites and accounts, as well as giveaways however, do.

[nbo]

of course just like everything does, like auio galaxy and morpheus and many more, something better and faster will emerge, 6-12 years...

[Nestea]

Never!

[aysomc]

i dont think it will continue though with comcast and AT&T, you can use torrents to legally host files that you own so if they cut that out why not completely cut out all downloading all together. the more mainstream torrents get with people legally hosting files the longer it will last, could you imagine if they throttled downloading regular files from the internet because they may be illegal? it would never work, so we need more people to legally seed files that they own which is hard since you have to donwload and know how to work 1 extra program which people seem to think is hard.

[tarantino]

I think never.

[Skiz]

i dont think it will continue though with comcast and AT&T, you can use torrents to legally host files that you own so if they cut that out why not completely cut out all downloading all together.

The ISPs will continue down the road they're on; no question. Anti-piracy organizations are suing not only the users they catch, but the ISPs which allow them to download the content. These lawsuits have been dragging through the court systems for years and the ISPs are realizing that even without having lost a case, the mere cost of fighting off these organizations is astronomical.

Do you think these multi-billion dollar corporations haven't researched this for years? Do you think they just threw up their hands and said, "Eh, we'll give it a shot"?

You also seem to be rather misinformed about their throttling methods. AT&T for example has not reduced anyone's download speeds. In order for that to happen, their entire connection speed while on the web would be reduced as well. AT&T has simply instituted software which detects the transfer data via the bittorrent protocol and cuts off the upload the instant the download is completed. Obviously, not being able to upload would affect your status at trackers rather quickly, but also think of the big picture - With no uploaders, there is no content to download. R.I.P. bittorrent.

the more mainstream torrents get with people legally hosting files the longer it will last, could you imagine if they throttled downloading regular files from the internet because they may be illegal? it would never work, so we need more people to legally seed files that they own which is hard since you have to donwload and know how to work 1 extra program which people seem to think is hard.

You're really reaching now. Who cares if it would never work; no one is even attempting to throttle Internet connections or "regular files" (whatever that is). Conversely, the ISPs are offering faster connections every year. It's a race for business and competition for business is staunch, with speed and price being the only real factors.

Throttling all downloads of any type just doesn't make sense. Heck, every time a web page loads, you're downloading from the Internet.

There is also illegal content all over, but unarguably the major source of it is obtained through P2P networks, and right now the flavor of the week is the bittorrent protocol. I would wager 95% of illegal content is done via P2P networks.