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[Steven Schveighoffer]

"Mike Parker" wrote
> Anders Bergh wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> Speak for yourself! Embedded flash videos are a great deal more 
>>> convenient
>>> than regular downloads and a great deal better than torrents.
>>> I refuse to install a torrent client.
>>>
>>
>> Why do you refuse to install a torrent client? Is it because it's
>> often associated with piracy? BitTorrent is quite popular and works
>> great for what it was designed for. Especially when you have a fast
>> connection, whenever I download things like OpenOffice it's miles
>> faster than the http mirrors.
>>
>> Even Opera comes with a built-in BitTorrent client.
>>
>> Anders
>
> I know BitTorrent is popular, what it is and what it does. But it's not 
> just torrents. Anything that requires me to install one more client to 
> download it isn't getting the time of day from me. I have a fantastic 
> transfer rate and a perfectly good download manager that works through a 
> Firefox plugin. If I can't download something through that, I don't want 
> it.
>
> Besides, I've used BitTorrent in the past on my old box and didn't see any 
> benefit to using it.

In fact, I was in the same camp you were (yay! one more thing to bog down my 
PC), but I thought 'firefox must have a plugin for this'

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4844

No excuses now :)

-Steve