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Originally Posted by HSp8
can't the BBC have it's own newsgroup server and get people to download their programs from that?
I thought I-Player used P2P system, which will hog the network - surely it's better for people to download only, rather and uploading as well
PS Magilla - do I know you?
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A central server and the BW required costs money. Thats why a decent news provider costs money and most ISP's free news services are rubbish.
The whole idea behind torrents is that it uses users BW instead of BW from a central server. Unfortunately it is the ISP's and not the users on a fixed fee who have to pay for this extra BW. Remember for each say 1gig downloaded via torrent the responsable torrenter gives back at least 1gig, preferably more. This represents at least double the BW required for the same amount of data downloaded from a central server.
Don't forget also that the ISP has to provide the hardware necessary to handle all this extra data transfer caused by the uploading.
It's very easy to see why ISP's would be extremely pleased to be able to rid their networks of what they see as the 'curse' of torrenting.