BitTorrent Has Cancer...

[Wwwildthing]

BitTorrent is free for the average user. Usenet is not.

The average seedbox runs $40 a month.
An unlimited Usenet account is half that, or less.

The 'cancer' is not invites, its the source of them... private trackers.
Usenet Access is a 'business' because of the way it is structured. No-one could move 5 terabyte of data, every day, and offer a year of retention, without incurring expenses.

Your right in that bittorrent was 'suspose' to be free... but someone found a way to make a buck, and the drama began.

[Totti]

BitTorrent is free for the average user. Usenet is not.

The average seedbox runs $40 a month.
An unlimited Usenet account is half that, or less.

The 'cancer' is not invites, its the source of them... private trackers.
Usenet Access is a 'business' because of the way it is structured. No-one could move 5 terabyte of data, every day, and offer a year of retention, without incurring expenses.

Your right in that bittorrent was 'suspose' to be free... but someone found a way to make a buck, and the drama began.

i have not spent money on bittorent and am not planning to spend money on it. I think that who ever pays money for a seedbox is a damn fool just seed the torrent back no need to have 200 gb buffers 1.1 ratio is more then enough to keep d/l what you want

[FunkyMonk]

edit: I think seedboxes are the worst thing that ever happened to bt.

amen!!

[Bad-Day]

edit: I think seedboxes are the worst thing that ever happened to bt.

amen!!

unless they´re free

[Tokeman]

Seedboxes are great, for uploaders, and people with <50kb/s upload.
Otherwise, people just waste money on them, but hey, that just makes it easier for me to max my downstream, how nice of them.

BT is not going anywhere anytime soon. Theres far too many sites to take down for it to happen soon. What it really comes down to is the net neutrality case. If they can block/slow BT traffic on all isp's, then BT will die. If not, it will continue on, at least privatly.

[stl]

u have to be an idiot finding connections between bt protocol and invite trading/selling

[brotherdoobie]

u have to be an idiot finding connections between bt protocol and invite trading/selling

What are you going on about? Who's comparing protocol and invite trading, ffs?


-bd