"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." We can has Heroes, just for one day
Was the net slow for you yesterday? My transatlantic connection was completely throttled. It’s a wild guess, but it may have been the 140260 people torrenting the Season 2 premiere of Heroes combined with the 113347 breaking the law for Prison Break S3x02. And that’s just counting the ones listed on eztv.
I remember (cue string quartet) when you’d get pistol whipped for
including a 50 kb attachment and extradited for allowing HTML mail. And I’d be the one dishing out the punishments. Now
I’m hoovering a couple of Gigabytes per day and nobody bats an eyelid, least of all myself.
Are torrents clogging up our pipes? They may be, but that’s probably not the reason why CRIA (Canadian recording industry association) shut down the popular Demonoid tracker today.
I tried but couldn’t find any links to support the theory. I do remember reading reports some years back about bittorrents killing bandwidth.
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Could also be the release of Halo 3 video game – not sure if it uses different internet tubes or what.
Did you get it dl’ed and watched? What did you think?
I did get it downloaded (very fast too, from a private tracker), but I haven’t watched it yet. In fact I haven’t even seen series I. I watched the first episode, but it didn’t appeal to me. Now everybody says it’s great so I think I need to give it another go. Wondering if watching from this point on will make sense.