On: BitTorrent Sync Is A Dropbox Killer, Or Maybe Much More Than That

[keiferski]

1. A service with the word "torrent" in it will never be adopted by a corporate entity. (edit: "typical" corporation. Technology companies don't count)

2. You may be overestimating how much the average person cares about file storage size, 3rd party servers, or transferring large files.

[krasin → keiferski]

Amazon S3 allows to download files over BitTorrent: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.htm...

Ubuntu is also available via official torrent releases: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads

A few cloud companies use torrent to distribute images across servers (not really a proof, bu anyway: http://www.jcmartin.org/posts/large-scale-file-distribution-...)

Aren't Amazon, Canonical, and these cloud companies corporate entities?

[res0nat0r → krasin]

Think corporate where the boardroom consists of people in expensive suits, not boardrooms with people in expensive jeans and sneakers.

[nl → keiferski]

A service with the word "torrent" in it will never be adopted by a corporate entity

Absolutely not true. Eg: I know film theaters use private Bittorrent networks to distribute the multi-GB master copies of their films to cinemas (yes, they have hardware DRM etc where you need a unique code to be able to play, but they have no problem using the best tool for the job).

[hayksaakian → nl]

I'd read a blog post about this.

[DoubleMalt → keiferski]

@1. You might have missed how many game companies distribute the patches nowadays.

@2. Indeed. To find broader adoption by private users it MUST be click and go. But I don't see a reason why BTSynch can't achieve that in the short term even.

[keiferski → DoubleMalt]

1. True, but game companies are still in the tech-friendly sector. For an average manager at OfficeCorp, a torrent is some illegal website you download stuff from.

2. It could, but BT isn't built around the idea of dead simplicity, like DropBox is. Perceived branding does matter.

[KaiserPro → keiferski]

If I was aspera or filesociety, I'd be rather worried.

I'm planning on using this to sync terrorbytes between london and LA. Why should I pay the ridiculous cost of a thinly wrapped rsync over UDP when I can have it for free? (the latency between the two means that the maximum throughput on tcp based protocols get about 2-3 megs a second tops)

I will be testing the throughput of torrentsync. Currently it appears to be painfully single threaded (it looks to be python)

[mwfunk → KaiserPro]

You must have a frightening amount of data!

[wiml → KaiserPro]

Is this just a delay-bandwidth-product problem? Are you not using tcp window scaling for some reason?

[westicle → keiferski]

A corporate entity is simply a registered company. I have several corporate entities, which I would describe as "typical" corporations. I would have no strong feelings one way or another about using such a service.

You might be thinking about a publicly listed company, which is far from a typical company.