| ▲ | Aurornis 5 hours ago |
| Several companies tried this for distributing software. It was very controversial. Users were angry that software companies were using their internet bandwidth to distribute their software. Made a lot of people angry. |
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| ▲ | blharr 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| >software companies were using their internet bandwidth to distribute their software If I understand the description correctly, microsoft still does this! https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/windows-... |
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| ▲ | himata4113 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Steam still does this! For your local network only and not using the torrent protocol. |
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| ▲ | ivanmontillam 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If only Blizzard servers were seeders, and clients were only leechers, that'd have not been a problem. |
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| ▲ | ehe78qhe 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is less efficient (in bandwidth, complexity, and monetary cost) than an HTTPS based CDN. | |
| ▲ | mococa 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There’s web seeding |
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| ▲ | kzrdude 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Typical example to show that people who want to be angry will be angry, even for pointless things. |
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| ▲ | mh- 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | As someone who was annoyed by it at the time, I don't think it's a good example of that. This was in an era of much more limited upstream bandwidth. The p2p nature was obscured from non-technical users in some implementations. So on and so on. I'm sure there are plenty of writeups from that era detailing why it was a bad idea. These companies already used capable CDNs to distribute patches. It was a way for them to shift their CDN bill onto their paying customers. | | |
| ▲ | mitxela 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think it's like residential proxies. People get upset about "it's using my thing!" even though it has literally no effect on them. | | |
| ▲ | bayindirh 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | When you have barely the upstream bandwidth to send the ACK stream of your downloads, anything sending something becomes a big burden on your system. Not everyone has the luxury of fully symmetric internet connections even in this age. Yes, my uplink speeds are absurd when compared to a decade ago, but when I ratio it to my downlink, it's still slow. I have no comment on residential proxies. Somebody doing something in my name is unacceptable to put it very mildly. | |
| ▲ | mh- 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't know how to respond to that, because it has quite a few negative effects on them.. |
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