BitTorrent Has Cancer...

[TP635]

Death would be from external source: the Law

[Unstable1]

The OP has cancer.

[brotherdoobie]

I think BT is far from being replaced. It is far too readily available and user friendly to be ousted by the likes of usenet. Usenet has a long ways to go in terms of interface before the public embraces it.

Interface my ass. Bittorrent is free for the average user. Usenet is not.
That's most of it.

The OP has cancer.

The bad aids, actually. It was all a tragic accident; involving turkey basters, a slightly used pickle, male pregnancy, and an insatiable English lad; a natural born pervert.



-doobs

[Zaxx]

Interface my ass. Bittorrent is free for the average user. Usenet is not.
That's most of it.

The OP has cancer.

The bad aids, actually. It was all a tragic accident; involving turkey basters, a slightly used pickle, male pregnancy, and an insatiable English lad; a natural born pervert.



-doobs

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Thx doobs...I needed that. Here's to ya!

[Totti]

Something similar will replace it, eventually. I'll use whatever that may be.

Well that's pretty obvious look at the previous popular d/l methods

-warez sites
-napster
-kazza
-dc++ (although i have recently understood this is still pretty popular)
-torrent/rapidshare

it's the way piracy works once the RIAA cracks down on one method a new method pops up to compensate for it

The only methods that have managed to survive for a long period of time are
-Mirc
-Ftp/ topsites, dumps (and they change the specific ftp very frequently )

[brotherdoobie]

I know how piracy works, lad. FFS, I've been doing this for a bit.

You?


-doobs

[Totti]

I know how piracy works, lad. FFS, I've been doing this for a bit.

You?


-doobs

i know you have m8 was pointing it out too other people me hmmmm since 1999 i guess so that would be 10 years by now god that's a long time! never thought about it...

you?

[Rart]

Interface my ass. Bittorrent is free for the average user. Usenet is not.
That's most of it.

Yes, thats what I really meant by "readily available", but I avoided the term "free" as there are free servers you can use (and IPv6)

[sez]

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/p2p-dying/
but bt remains king of p2p traffic.

[TrollinThunder]

Even though that study is utterly flawed, it's a given that bt is the dominant form of p2p at the moment. That's really at the core of the OP's point.

As for usenet not being popular. I really, really don't understand how people spend money on seedboxes but won't spend ten bucks a month to leech all they can. It's all about epenis.

The problem with seedboxes is it fundamentally changes the way users use sites and the way people share. And I think it does so in a way that undermines some of the joy of bittorrent. Sure, not everybody is affected by them, but enough people strive to be at the top of the peer list that the scene has changed in principle.