alt Hacker NewsSeveral companies tried this for distributing software.
It was very controversial. Users were angry that software companies were using their internet bandwidth to distribute their software. Made a lot of people angry.
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ivanmontillam • today at 5:44 PM
If only Blizzard servers were seeders, and clients were only leechers, that'd have not been a problem.
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kzrdude • today at 6:04 PM
Typical example to show that people who want to be angry will be angry, even for pointless things.
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>software companies were using their internet bandwidth to distribute their software
If I understand the description correctly, microsoft still does this!
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/windows-...