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Online games stealing your bandwidth
From: Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:16:46 -0400
I think most people are aware that the Blizzard "World of WarcCraft" patcher distributes files through Bittorrent, however apparently a number of other MMO companies (LotR, Lego) are apparently doing something similar but aren't as upfront about it, and are installing Windows services which seed whenever the computer is online. Game Companies Should Play Fair With P2P | TorrentFreak<http://torrentfreak.com/game-companies-should-play-fair-with-p2p-100901/> If you follow the links in the article people are complaining that the LotR process has served 70gb in a week, others are complaining that the service is resulting in 300ms pings, and unusable connections. This is a very grey area it will be interesting how this issue unfolds in the long run. -- [ Rodrick R. Brown ] http://www.rodrickbrown.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrickbrown
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