thefalcon

Member since: May 15th, 2007

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Free music and a chance to win more from Tap Tap Revenge 3 (TUAW.com)

Oct 22nd 2009 10:30PM Foo Fighters - Best of You

Eight TV law firms that Eliot Spitzer may want to represent him (AOL TV)

Mar 19th 2008 2:32AM TTNG from Justice
Sounds like the perfect case for them.

Lets chat about P2P some more (Blog Maverick)

Nov 21st 2007 3:15AM Mark,

Just a quick thing to add. I think the buffet analogy needs fixing.

It's OK to take as much jello ... 2048 grams, for example, for arguments sake
But I'm also paying the buffet to give away 512 grams of it however I please.
I give away all 512 grams of it, and allows another buffet go-er to give me 1024 grams of cheese, because he wants jello, and the line is too long.

Sounds weird, but it does make sense. I own my download, and I own my upload. It's not reselling. If it was, wouldn't uploading videos onto Google Video, and streaming from Google Video be the same thing? We are taking and giving bandwidth, and if no one uploads, it would fail... just like P2P.

If its the last mile, blame the ISP for advertising what they cannot offer.

An Open Letter to Comcast and Every cable/Telco on P2P - updated (Blog Maverick)

Nov 20th 2007 10:10PM Mostly, I would agree with your insights, but this one, I have to refute.

Please do consider the many other functions of P2P
- Skype uses a P2P based VOIP, and is very legit
- Joost uses P2P to speed up video distribution, and power InternetTV
- Blizzard uses P2P to cater for patch updates in WoW.
- Many Linux distros, some big, and some barely starting, use P2P to distribute.

P2P cuts costs for the distributor, some which are mere hobbyist trying to get their stuff out (Imagine where Linux would be without a proper P2P distro. Bandwidth costs would be huge)

Also consider that, a hosted download, would normally be located in US or other states. And for myself and many others who live in Asia, the download slows down a very staggering notch when using direct download methods without a local mirror. P2P improves and speeds this up significantly. Google Video, and YouTube doesn't par. I can't stream online with my current connection (which is already the fastest my country can offer), and waiting for it to fully buffer is much slower than firing up Bittorrent. And some people would actually like to keep the videos or content instead of being forced to stream it often.

What we pay for, is the bandwidth allocations. Should we actually be penalized of taking full use of it?