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Originally posted by mattm591
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
1) Speeds the spreading? NO, the user has to know it exist before he can download something. So no benefit from here...
You get faster speeds
I'm not talking about download speed here, but about the speed of spreading.
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Originally posted by mattm591
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
2) P2P are FULL, and I repeat FULL of virusses. You never know if the file you're downloading is virus-free...
Bit torrent is not and i repeat NOT..
Think again... Bittorrent has a bit less virus infected stuff, but is by no means virusfree and still has many many virusses...
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Originally posted by mattm591
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
3) Speeds up the downloading? NO, you still have to download the same amount of bytes
But it's quicker cus bit torrent is faster than an overloaded server
No, bittorrent is at best as fast, but in way faster. In fact, it often is much more slower.
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Originally posted by mattm591
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
4) Convenience? NO, the user need to have a P2P client in order to be able to download anything from it...
Bit torrent app actually, and many do... those who don't can still get normal .exe.. saves some bandwidth on the several thousands that have it
P2P programs are not as widespread as you might think. It is not because all your friends have them and you all enjoy downloading warez, that the whole world has them.
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Originally posted by mattm591
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
5) Download speed? NO, downloading from P2P is far slower then downloading from a site directly...
On popular torrents I get speeds of up to 60 kb/s compared to 58 kb/s on uber fast Microsoft servers.
Like I said above, that is the same speed! When you download something from someone else, you're bound to the upload speed of that person/server. If you download directly from the original main source, you are only bound by your own download speed. Also don't compare 1 server with the other, each has his own upload/download limits. But you can NEVER download anything faster then your own download speed. If you think you do, you are comparing the wrong things. eg: you could download a file from a torrent network at 100Kb because you have 2 sources to download from. When you would download that same file from its original source you most likely will have +100Kb in the first place... Again, this is a hard rumour that P2P networks would be faster.
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Originally posted by mattm591
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
6) Available latest version? NO, on P2P there is no way to control/check what the latest version is...
There is if Patchou supplies the torrent 
so???? everybody can supply a torrent...
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Originally posted by mattm591
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
7) User information/convenience/related info/etc...? NO, there is no way that you can replace the informative original website with a P2P download...
You can have it as well
No you can not
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