BitTorrent and Starship Titanic

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I was listening to DotNetRocks #157, which talk about BitTorrent, and something just went "click" when I heard them talking. In Starship Titanic one of the characters rave about the inefficiencies inherent to modern traffic system (check outside at ~8:30AM each morning and you'll see what he is talking about).

One of the things he said there went on like this (from memory and translating to English): "You shouldn't build a system that works slower the more people use it. A proper system work faster the more people use it."

BitTorrent is a proper system J