Comments on: Group cites Microsoft threat, says no SP2 over P2P

Peer-to-peer advocacy group says it has stopped distributing Windows Service Pack 2 after legal move by software giant.

[unknown unknown]

What good is invoking the DMCA in this case?

Traditional copyright law provides all the facilities necessary to stop such activity.

P2P not viable on a large scale.

People think that P2P piracy is wide-spread, but honestly, P2P is small potatoes. P2P is a failure because it starts spreading a significant amount of the Internets load to the outer edge, at it's slowest points. Most cable and DSL have capped uploads. If companies like Microsoft started using P2P networks to distribute their load, you'd feel like you are back on a modem.

Networks simply do not work well when you push heavy load to the slowest points. When will this lesson be learned?

[Kamael]

Think about it

"Most cable and DSL have capped uploads."
This is why BitTorrent breaks up a large file into smaller chunks and simultaneously downloads separate chunks from anyone online who has the file. eMule does this also, with the result that when I personally downloaded a 200MB file in pieces simultaneously from four other eMule users I discovered that I was also uploading those chunks I had already received to six other people that were requesting the file. Now since the ethernet protocol standard is to upload at one-tenth the speed of download, it only takes a dozen "seeders" to enable ethernet connections to upload faster than they download .... and this distribution model will work on virtually any network. That is why the following quote is false

"If companies like Microsoft started using P2P networks to distribute their load, you'd feel like you are back on a modem."

Think about what distributes fastest through the internet, and how it does so .... I ask you, is any distribution model faster than an email virus? and how do they work? they read the local address book and use it to build a peer-to-peer style network that has no prior existence -- thus demonstrating that P2P can run faster than any other distribution model even when the P2P has no prior existence ....