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One third of all Internet traffic is BitTorrent

Johnny Storm · 2004-11-09 14:05:32

The above factoid is from Reuters news. They suggest that the intellectual property owners will start cracking down on BitTorrent now that its becoming sort of mainstream. So get downloading while you still can....

09-11-2004 2:05pm

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Johnny Storm

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The above factoid is from Reuters news. They suggest that the intellectual property owners will start cracking down on BitTorrent now that its becoming sort of mainstream.
So get downloading while you still can....

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#2 18-11-2004 2:05pm

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http://in.tech.yahoo.com/041103/137/2ho4i.html

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#3 18-11-2004 10:04pm

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It's brilliant because it's much harder for studios to track people as trackers can be spread out everywhere!

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#4 18-11-2004 10:07pm

ED-209

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Isn't Bit Torrent great !!!

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#5 18-11-2004 10:09pm

Bass.exe

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I hope you aren't talking about downloading anything... illegal? ;P

Anyway, they can't take BT away, it has legal uses!! I want my Fansubs, dammit!

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#6 18-11-2004 10:13pm

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Bass.exe wrote:

I hope you aren't talking about downloading anything... illegal? ;P

Oh god no !!

Purely for shareware and drivers :rolleyes:

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#7 19-11-2004 1:06am

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They say spam takes up 60%. Now 33% for warezing. I'm guessing that the other 7% is porn. Maybe we should get a second interweb.

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#8 19-11-2004 1:12am

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MrPinK wrote:

They say spam takes up 60%.

Apparently Bill Gates getes 4 million e-mails a day.

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