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Re:Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enorm... by tombert on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:32AM (#12382546)
Oh, I know that programmers and hackers and whatnot knew torrents were cool; I'm talking about non-technical people.

For example, until fairly recently, if I mentioned a "torrent" to my non-technical mom, she would assume I meant ThePirateBay or something like that. Nowadays, she knows it as just another means to download files.

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Re:Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enorm... by NelsonMinar on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:38AM (#12382602)
Not sure Academic Torrents is the best example of a use of torrents for "non-technical people".
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Re:Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enorm... by tombert on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:42AM (#12382632)
That's a fair point; I guess what I was trying to get at is that when I worked for NYU, I think it would have been an incredibly tough sell to use torrents in any capacity, because of the stigma of piracy. However, I think if I were to pitch it now, there would be serious consideration.
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