On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:36:30PM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > That's just the typical Bittorrent /client/, but the idea of using > > Bittorrent means the /protocol/. A special Bittorrent client could be > > written for ISPs with uploads disabled and Apple could also disable them > > on the update-downloading Bittorrent client for the phones. > > > > The clients (be it Bittorrent or not) would still download the MD5 hash > > after the download finishes to verify the integrity of the download, and > > Apple would still be able to measure the amount of downloaded images. > > So then all the networks that have done $things to BitTorrent to demote it > to second-rate traffic will suddenly have a bunch of very angry Apple fans > whose downloads are mysteriously having issues.
Sounds like a win to me. - Matt -- "Python is a rich scripting language offering a lot of the power of C++ while retaining the ease of use of VBscript." -- The PyWin32 documentation