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I recently needed an image for a VM system; I believe it was OpenIndiana. The download via HTTP showed me that yes, Chrome is able to use "day" as a unit of time for how long a download will take.
I dug out the BitTorrent client (took me a couple of minutes to remember its name) and pulled the image that way. Took a very few minutes instead.
That's about a 1000x speed-up.
Commented May 15, 2012 on an example of the usefulness of bittorrent for entirely legal purposes at WWdN: In Exile
an example of the usefulness of bittorrent for entirely legal purposes
I frequently find myself in an unpopular position in the entertainment industry: I believe in network neutrality, I don't believe that piracy is the end of the world as we know it (I particularly don't believe that a download or file shared automatically equals a lost sale*) and I don't believe ...
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