From January 2005's Wired Magazine, The BitTorrent Effect:

One example of how the world has already changed: Gary Lerhaupt, a graduate student in computer science at Stanford, became fascinated with Outfoxed, the documentary critical of Fox News, and thought more people should see it. So he convinced the film's producer to let him put a chunk of it on his Web site for free, as a 500-Mbyte torrent. Within two months, nearly 1,500 people downloaded it. That's almost 750 gigs of traffic, a heck of a wallop. But to get the ball rolling, Lerhaupt's site needed to serve up only 5 gigs. After that, the peers took over and hosted it themselves. His bill for that bandwidth? $4. There are drinks at Starbucks that cost more. "It's amazing - I'm a movie distributor," he says. "If I had my own content, I'd be a TV station."

Read the article, its an interesting profile on Bram Cohen and what bit torrent will bring. Of course, we're already seeing that today with Prodigem. :)

By Gary Lerhaupt, 07:08 PM in general | Comments (1)  

to self-comment ... this blurb also reminds me of why its good to blog (besides the endless self-referentialism). As I told the author and the Wired mag fact-checker that followed up, I hadn't even seen Outfoxed when I approached its producer about torrenting it. It stood out as a great candidate for p2p distribution and I was fascinated with bit torrent. But I guess it sounds better as above.

Posted by: Gary Lerhaupt at December 28, 2004 08:24 PM