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Originally Posted by hunterx
...most XDCC's are hacked govt or research computers with tons (and I mean tons) of bandwidth and speed.
Newsgroups are also good but many people don't have access to one.
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Didn't see this mentioned before in the thread. I was thinking the same thing but didn't want to jump out first. BT is "nice" in that whatever BW you are using up to get the file out is voluntarily contributed.
Newsgroups also benefit from the popularity of BT. At one point groups were slamming competing releases onto usenet as fast as they could. This was kind of annoying depending on how many times the same episodes were posted. Sometimes identical files (same group, same everything) were posted on the same day >< Stuff like that still happens but not to the same extent. It's too bad that many ISPs gave up on providing in-house usenet service, but that's old news...