"mr.sumo snr." wrote...
> "Robert" wrote first...
> >  Far fewer people are involved with the movies, since they are
> > insanely long downloads.
> >
> Insanely long downloads?  Not if you're on B-flets or the 26mb ADSL
> services. A 'friend' - manages to snag full DVD ISOs in about 6-8 hours
from
> various bittorrent sites.

To me this illustrates perfectly the sort of weird socio-cultural disconnect
between those folks on the file-sharing planet, and the rest of us.  I would
never, ever, consider 6-8 hours of downloading to be anything but insanely
long, especially when you consider that at a B-flets spec of 100mbps your
friend should, in theory, be able to download a 4.7gb DVD in less than 10
minutes.

But a non-rhetorical question:  How much would you pay to download a
mint-quality DVD in less than 10 minutes?  I suppose such fast hosting would
cost the distributor at least $100 grand/mo. Guessing an OC-12 capable of
pushing out 622mbps, in theory it could support 20,000 DVD downloads per
month.  But I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

Best regards,
hibijibi