The Fernando Poniente Show

Well ever since Cuban traded Steve Nash I’ve always thought that this guy had no brains. Could you imagine him with out his money?
His movie “Redacted” was a flop, now he has another stupid idea.
According to Stan Schroeder of Mashable he’s just plain dumb.

First of all, if I pay for bandwidth, I have the right to use it in
whatever way I want. We’re not talking about spilling drinking water onto the
street here. We’re talking about having more or less ones and zeros delivered to
my computer. And even if I were to switch P2P for Google Video (which is like
comparing apples to early 20th century architecture), I’d still use just the
same amount of bandwidth.
But, Mr. Cuban has an answer to that. Here
goes:
“My position is related to the last mile. P2P is so incredibly
inefficient. You send and receive the same bytes , which means for the portion
of the file you are a seed for, you are at least 50pct
inefficient”.
Inefficient for who? Let’s talk elementary math here. 100 users
want to download a 100 MB file. If they all download it from a single source,
HTTP or FTP style, the overall bandwidth toll will be approx. 10 GB. Now, if
they all do it by using P2P, downloading the file off each other, how much
bandwidth will they spend in the end? You guessed it - approx. 10 GB. In fact,
the reason why P2P was invented in the first place was because it was very
efficient compared to traditional download methods.
Now, someone who knows
something about how P2P works might point to the overhead that P2P has, because
of hash checking and some extra communication between peers which is necessary
for P2P to work. This will result in slightly increased bandwidth. But that same
person will know that in practice, you can’t have a huge number of users
downloading a file from a single server because the server is going to slow down
and/or die. This is why many companies today use P2P for various
bandwidth-hungry purposes: Joost uses it to
distribute video content, while popular MMO Eve uses it to help people download patches
easier.