Oversized Video Clips at BitTorrent.com

Written by Ernesto on November 27, 2006 

We all know that BitTorrent is probably the best way to transfer large files, but this doesn’t mean that one should increase the filesize because they distribute something over BitTorrent.

BitTorrent inc logoYesterday I browsed through the official BitTorrent site to see if there was some interesting stuff to download. My eyes fell on the “New York, New York” video clip by Moby and Debbie Harry. The torrent had around 20 seeders and 20 peers, so it was pretty healthy, and I assumed that it wouldn’t take that long to download…

Wrong, when I loaded the torrent file in uTorrent, I noticed that the videoclip was over 1GB! Wait a minute, 1GB for a 5 minute videoclip? That’s over 3MB per second! I know that BitTorrent recently expanded their server park, but this is just a waste of bandwidth. V2 Records probably never heard of “compression” because they offer a whole collection of oversized videoclips.

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6 Responses

1 Nov 27, 2006 at 23:37 by kdsde

ernesto,
that’s the new guerilla (sp?) tactic of the MAFIAA.
Since it would not look good if they use the army of poisoning peers from MediaSentry in the 38.100. range on their official partner bittorrent.com they use these genuine but Monster Files to deter from the use of this p2p technology

;-)

2 Nov 28, 2006 at 00:20 by Ernesto

Haha, yeah they’re evil

3 Nov 28, 2006 at 12:14 by Nebojsa

Well who knows, those jerks with Homer’s size of brain anything could look like a good idea.

4 Jan 20, 2007 at 03:32 by Kibbles_'n_Bits

Now if only we could get the MAFIAA and the spammers to work together, we could look forward to 1 GB spam messages followed by nasty, threatening legal threats ;)

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