Peer-to-Peer (P2P) downloading has been around for a while now. Since the old Napster days to today’s Bittorrent (BT) generally P2P has been looked down upon due to the uses of it for the theft of intellectual property. Of course, technology is technology and being a tool, how we use it determines whether it is good or bad.

According to Slashdot, Microsoft’s new Secure Content Downloader is a client that uses P2P for downloading large files (like the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008) from Microsoft. I think it’s about time companies started embracing P2P as it would utilize their client’s bandwidth rather than their own and thereby would cut costs. The company would be seeding the file as well so everything is kept nice and fast with a lesser strain on a company’s bandwidth when the file is shared more and more. Microsoft isn’t the first major company to use P2P. Blizzard has been using BT for it’s World of Warcraft Patches for a while now – and it seems to be doing well.

While on the topic of P2P, Slashdot also has info about a new open source BT client for mobile phones called uTorrentmUI which works on every mobile as it uses a web interface. Unfortunately you can’t add files yet….but you can remotely control your desktop’s BT actions.  It’s a start! 

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