Takes longer to download the damn client then it did to download the software I wanted. lol

Epic failure!! So yeah pretty lame!! And indeed should use plain “old” .torrent files not this DNA crapware.

Chris
http://faaipdeoiad.com

@52: They use an .exe? Not a .torrent? I think the stupid people infiltrated the web development meeting at that point, and if enough of us complain to them, I’m sure they’ll switch.

Much love, Asus.

Thanks but I have a torrent client. It’s called utorrent and it works great.

Good baby step forward though. They almost got it this time. :)

My bandwidth is worth spending for faster speed (to me anyways). It’s what my oversold ISP SAID I could download! :P

Sure hope the CRTC lays the smackdown up here for consumer rights vs the ISP’s bs (offtopic but important)

uhhh….yay Asus? Keep trying and you’ll get there.

The BT DNA, as many before me said, is more like trojan eating up your bandwith without any statistics or options what, when and how you want to share.

This is absolutely illegitimate use of BitTorrent. Asus is commercial company and if I want their drivers that means I bought their product so should get approperiate support! Why should I give up my bandwith on top of that? On a closed-source rouge client distributing the file without my knowledege?

This is totally outrageous not some kind of “good news”. This should be condemned unless they distribute .torrent files which you can use with any client of your choice and inform every downloader that their bandwith is further used to distribute the file!

This is more like bandwith theft!

What do you think “Grid Computing” means?

Bittorrent it’s just one form, P2P would exist regardless of piracy. Why?

Because people find uses for it and because it reduces cost, if it wasn’t for piracy maybe there would not be 1 or 2 dominant protocols but many so get off your highhourse and join the human race.

yeh you’re right mate, as tf said, it’s cheap and you get ridiculously slow downloads. with http, you max out your bandwidth. so why bother with torrenting when there’s an http alternative?

I suppose it would be helpful if I actually learned how to pay attention as I type. ^^;

I’ll be running a port scanner regularly from now on and shutting down the ports that they use. They can fuck off and pay for their bandwidth like the rest of us rather than pocket the savings and add to their profit margin.

On a somewhat related note, Asus (maker of Eee computers) lost a bunch of my respect when they dropped Linux in favor of their “It’s Better With Windows” campaign. Like hell it is.

@anti-copyright trolls: You’re wasting your time.

It will happen eventualy, with LOBBY organisations infiltrated in POLITICS and JUSTICE systems.

I love CAPS when used right!

Cute. There you go again with your psychotic little delusion that filesharing is selfish. What a shame that sharing is an inherently unselfish act in reality.

Well… It’s a shame for you, anyway. The rest of us get to point and laugh at the sad clown. :D

By the way, “digital theft” can only take place if you take the digital thing in question away from its owner. For example, gaining access to somebody else’s Paypal account and transferring $20 to your Paypal account would qualify as “digital theft” because you now you have $20 in Paypal and they don’t. Likewise, copying a file from somebody else’s computer to a USB stick and then deleting the original file would qualify as digital theft because the owner has been deprived of said file.

Filesharing fails as “digital theft” because it merely copies, and never destroys or takes away the original file.

if it were not for the free digital library (what you call piracy, even though that is not the proper definition) Bittorrent would not come to existence.

Piracy is the definition of making a profit off of copyrighted works that you don’t own copyright too.

P2P is sharing the work without any [U]profit[/U].

Other then that Its nice to see even more corporations embrace bittorrent.

Ironically, here in Taiwan, most of our downloads are throttled, upload caps are horrible, and if you nailed for copyright, it really is a pain to deal with, because Team America, World Police, aka the MPAA, and RIAA have our Government in their pocket, ironically they also agree with One China Policy, go figure… real piracy is mainstream in Mainland China.

Asus is awesome! I hope they continue helping legitimize the bittorent protocol.

As for nothing new; I walk into retail establishments and they’re endlessly playing dated tunes, like a broken record, like at the grocery store I just returned from: ‘Do You Really Want to Hurt Me’ by Culture Club. Meanwhile we’re talking about Metallica here.
I was irritated enough to forget the milk, so I have to go back. I’ll post the tune I hear when I return. Can’t wait.

Bittorrent DNA is much closer to a Trojan rootkit than a friendly p2p client. Avoid!

Also, Asus spends too much time in Microsoft’s hip pocket for me to care about their products.

they should improve their servers/connections or wtv..

cant stop thinking all they want is MORE money

i might be wrong so please enlighten me

Too bad there are so many selfish pricks ruining privacy for everyone else by using it for infringement, illegal distribution and digital theft of all kinds.

Very, very true just take a look at the copyright laws and you can see an ocean of thieves hiding behind it to steal things and crying like babies when they don’t get their way.