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Re: BitTorrent

The thing with bittorrent is that it requires somebody, somewhere to have the file and to be running the client for other people to download it. With things like Red Hat ISOs and other popular items, this isn't a problem, since there's almost always a few hundred people downloading it from somewhere. With a FIRST animation, the likelihood of 2 people downloading it at the same time is relatively low, so the chances are that your seed will end up doing most of the uploading, thus using just as much bandwidth as if you simply hosted the file directly.

Now, if you could convice everyone on your team to seed it from the home computers 24/7, you could be on to something...

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