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Cc: chris@hier7.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?
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Chris Slothouber wrote:

> But isn't the whole point of peer to peer file distribution to 
> *distribute* the bandwidth requirements to the point that the costs 
> involved for each of the individual peers is trivial but the client 
> receiving the file still obtains full speed of a direct download?

Yes, actually, it is.

-a