Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:02:59 -0500 From: Chris Slothouber <chris@hier7.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? Message-ID: <45E12693.9050206@hier7.com> In-Reply-To: <002001c758a1$a3ed10f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <45E0F697.2030005@allcaps.org> <002001c758a1$a3ed10f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Lentvorski" <bsder@allcaps.org> > To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:38 PM > Subject: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? > > >> Can we please get the FreeBSD torrent tracker and/or server back? >> >> (snip) >> > > Nobody pays the mirrors for their bandwidth. They are hosting and > paying for the bandwidth out of the goodness of their hearts. > > Nothing is stopping you from setting up your own torrent server on a big > fast > pipe that everyone else can use, and not pay you for. > > I don't know for sure how other ISP's do it but we definitely use > bandwidth limitations on the servers we host, customers that pay a lot > get a lot, customers that pay less get less, and the freebie servers > get whatever is left over after the paying customers have had their fill. > > (snip) > > I would suspect if you examined the financing scheme used for the Linux > download servers you would find that it is quite different than FreeBSD. 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?
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