Dutch University Uses BitTorrent to Update
Found on Torrentfreak on Sunday, 09 March 2008
In the US, several universities have banned filesharing applications such as BitTorrent, mostly under pressure from the RIAA. A university in the Netherlands has taken a different approach. They use uTorrent to distribute software and OS updates across 6500 workstations, and end up saving a lot of time, money and resources by doing so.
Before they decided to use BitTorrent, more than 20 servers were needed to distribute 25.6 TBs of data to the desktops, and even then it could take up to 4 days to update them all. Now, with BitTorrent, this process has speeded up significantly, and all computers are updated with the latest software in less than 4 hours.
That's a pretty impressive example of how a "hated" technology can actually save a lot of time. With examples like this one, more people will begin to realize the power behind filesharing.