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On 04/03/2009, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's possible that they were overwhelmed with the amount of downloads > that they have decided to make it into a torrent thus saving them bandwidth. > It was always a torrent, it was never an http download. They did the same for their tuxradar podcast. Makes total sense for an audience of geeks who "get" what bittorrent is about - given a lot of them use it to get their ISO in the first place. Their tracker will probably have more accurate stats on how many downloads / how much bandwidth was used, and they may well use that information for further promotion. Cheers, Al. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html