On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 01:27:25 +0900, "Hibijibi" <km34@columbia.edu>
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>"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.

When you consider:

1. Contrary to what that knucklehead who couldn't figure out WinMX
thinks, we don't have to sit there and monitor the download. We can
engage in other activities.

2. The alternative to obtaining it via a several hours long download
is to not have it at all.

>
>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.

Nice, if there were no other random bottlenecks between the host and
the recipient.



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Michael Cash

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Westernization in "The Last Samurai," another Hollywood epic that shows that 
nobody embodies the nobility of an exotic foreign culture like a visiting white 
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