Re:Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enorm...
by NelsonMinar on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:38AM
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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
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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.