Comments on: Why BitTorrent is destined to fail. http://www.jtnt.net/wp/2003/09/10/why-bittorrent-is-destined-to-fail/ Thu, 17 May 2012 21:49:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: MikeD http://www.jtnt.net/wp/2003/09/10/why-bittorrent-is-destined-to-fail/#comment-14 Mon, 06 Oct 2003 05:39:31 -0500 http://www.jtnt.net/wp/2003/09/10/why-bittorrent-is-destined-to-fail/#comment-14 I'm gonna have to disagree with you pal. The etree community as a whole is a good example of how community kindness can push a project to success. People share music and get music. It might not be a one to one ratio of giving to getting, but does that mean its a failure? Your discussion also begs the question, what is the success criteria of something like BitTorrent? Some people might say a 1 to 1 ratio of uploaded to downloaded bytes. Some might say 2 to 1 is more fair. You might see people hop off a torrent "early" but this might be because they have met their ratio. You contniue to say "However, sharing is not something people would do after downloading a file via FTP or the like anyway." That is also not true. In the etrade@ mailing list alone, how many posts do you see about b&ps and freebies. These are examples of folks downloading via ftp and sharing. You might not see as many posts as you like, but it still happens quite a bit. And finally, the ultimate example of pessimism is the statement "It relies too much on a Utopian model to flourish long-term". Isn't that what the music trading community relies on at the very core to continue? Folks volunteering time, money and effort to tape and transfer shows. Folks volunteering time, money, and bandwidth to share shows. Just one man's opinion I’m gonna have to disagree with you pal. The etree community as a whole is a good example of how community kindness can push a project to success. People share music and get music. It might not be a one to one ratio of giving to getting, but does that mean its a failure? Your discussion also begs the question, what is the success criteria of something like BitTorrent? Some people might say a 1 to 1 ratio of uploaded to downloaded bytes. Some might say 2 to 1 is more fair. You might see people hop off a torrent “early” but this might be because they have met their ratio.

You contniue to say “However, sharing is not something people would do after downloading a file via FTP or the like anyway.” That is also not true. In the etrade@ mailing list alone, how many posts do you see about b&ps and freebies. These are examples of folks downloading via ftp and sharing. You might not see as many posts as you like, but it still happens quite a bit.

And finally, the ultimate example of pessimism is the statement “It relies too much on a Utopian model to flourish long-term”. Isn’t that what the music trading community relies on at the very core to continue? Folks volunteering time, money and effort to tape and transfer shows. Folks volunteering time, money, and bandwidth to share shows.

Just one man’s opinion

]]> by: tor http://www.jtnt.net/wp/2003/09/10/why-bittorrent-is-destined-to-fail/#comment-13 Wed, 04 Feb 2004 02:29:20 -0600 http://www.jtnt.net/wp/2003/09/10/why-bittorrent-is-destined-to-fail/#comment-13 The key to make the torrent system work is large files... the bigger the better. Instead of posting .."Pink Floyd - The Wall" post "The entire collection of pink floyd ever made". Then you force the people downloading to stay on. The key to make the torrent system work is large files… the bigger the better.
Instead of posting ..”Pink Floyd - The Wall” post
“The entire collection of pink floyd ever made”.
Then you force the people downloading to stay on.

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