Re: Dropping an idea for Borland trial products

From: Dave Moore (silverstar69NOSPAM_at_NOSPAMgmail.com)
Date: 03/16/05


Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:09:25 -0000


"Andrea Raimondi" <rainaple@tin.it> wrote in message
news:42376d67@newsgroups.borland.com...
> How about using BitTorrent?
>
> Borland could make the .torrent files available only to
> registered users, much like they're doing now with trials.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Andrew

Noooooooooooooooooo!

Its the most godsawful protocol out there. Blizzard uses it for their
updates to World of Warcraft and on my DSL I can get an average of about
10-15K download speed, which is atrocious.

Best,
Dave



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