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August 11, 2004
What do people -- and by "people," I mean human beings, not geeks -- want to use BitTorrent for? To download public-domain video of congressional testimony from C-SPAN, of course. They utterly and completely do not care about what goes into accomplishing that. They want: a progress bar. Tell them how far along the download is. That's it. Nothing else. If you want to do it right, integrate BitTorrent into Mozilla and don't distinguish BT downloads from any other kind. Because, seriously, nobody cares. Astonishing thought here: Hide the complexity.

whats wrong with BitTorrent

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I left him a bit of a rant. Needless to say, he's all wrong. ;)

love, maker on 11 August 2004

i can see that.

love, Valette on 12 August 2004

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