Spiffae
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I think you guys are bickering about Valve trying to distribute their products via a BT-like network without seeing reason or one of the really great possibilities.
1. Someone said earlier that Valve would be better off purchasing more content servers... well, they basically did. Remember Valve partnering with LimeLight Networks? Whenever HL2 comes out, LimeLight will throw their incredible bandwidth around and we'll all be fine. Don't worry, they won't BT HL2...that would just be silly.
2. Bittorrent is a great idea for one thing though... Mods! Imagine a steam section that just lists all Available mods... you just click on one, and everyone who has that mod installed starts to bittorrent it to you in a reasonable fashion.. It would allow much wided mod distribution, as well as allowing in-game mod acquisition... you click a server, it says "sorry, you do not have Op Co-In... would you like to acquire it?" and you click yes... play regular DM for a half-hour, and then bam, youv'e got the mod.
that sounds good to me. If anyone knows the positives AND negatives of BT, it's the program's creator.
1. Someone said earlier that Valve would be better off purchasing more content servers... well, they basically did. Remember Valve partnering with LimeLight Networks? Whenever HL2 comes out, LimeLight will throw their incredible bandwidth around and we'll all be fine. Don't worry, they won't BT HL2...that would just be silly.
2. Bittorrent is a great idea for one thing though... Mods! Imagine a steam section that just lists all Available mods... you just click on one, and everyone who has that mod installed starts to bittorrent it to you in a reasonable fashion.. It would allow much wided mod distribution, as well as allowing in-game mod acquisition... you click a server, it says "sorry, you do not have Op Co-In... would you like to acquire it?" and you click yes... play regular DM for a half-hour, and then bam, youv'e got the mod.
that sounds good to me. If anyone knows the positives AND negatives of BT, it's the program's creator.