On 4/21/2009 3:17 PM, somebody wrote:
> "Darren New"<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote in message
>> Linux distros and World of Warcraft both use torrent technology to
>> distribute their stuff. Amazon supports it directly for stuff you want to
>> share without paying for all the bandwidth.  It *is* just a technology.
>
> Those few legitimate uses do not constitute a need.

Of course there's a need.  The need is for the conservation of 
bandwidth.  Just because your ISP doesn't send you a bill for every byte 
of traffic over their pipe, doesn't mean that bandwidth isn't costing 
someone something.

P2P filesharing (which, as others have pointed out, is distinct from P2P 
in general) is all about conserving bandwidth.  It doesn't care what 
information is being shared.

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...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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