[LINK] Does copyright have a future? [WAS: iinet wins!!]

[Stilgherrian]

On 09/02/2010, at 9:32 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> That bittorrent is more complex.  It is possible for instance to  
> leech, to only download.  The ratio at any time of download speed to  
> upload speed can be quite large especially with clients on asymmetric  
> links (like ADSL) where the download speed of the link is much faster  
> than the upload speed.  The client can be set to stop offering/seeding  
> when a certain ration of download amount to upload amount has been  
> reached.  That ratio can be set at anything from zero to say 10.  Each  
> client has different defaults.  Upload and download speeds are related  
> to the swarm speeds.  Some of the linux distributions have massively  
> fast seeders and a normal client downloads the whole distro before it  
> does any uploading.

Thank you. All this is good, but of course in the courtroom the judge can only consider the evidence in front of him/her. And that's why the judgement makes interesting reading. 

Stil


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