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Not the existing bit-torrent...

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In Reply to: RE: I refuse to use BitTorrent as it is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol posted by Tony Lauck on January 05, 2009 at 13:10:36

No, I don't mean to be a pirate and get hi-def stuffs for free :) What I mean is in the future there may (will?) be bit-torrent like scheme where large, copy protected (encoded files signed by the content provider?) multimedia files are "share" between people who have (bought) the rights to use. For instance, I believe Microsoft has a research project called Avalanche that have people looking into this. Single point download only scheme is not efficient and put too much burden on a few high-end servers and will be too slow for hi-def materials w/ large file sizes.

Even with today's bit-torrent there is a way to only let a few selected people sharing a torrent but the content being share is not protected from any further sharing by creating a "unlimited" torrent (e.g. I can get the file and seed it with another torrent on my own).

As for PC security: unless you are never online or never turn on your PCs ever you are exposed to risk ;)

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