There is a solution to this vicious cycle. If your file becomes phenomenally successful and a flash crowd of hundreds or thousands try to get it at once, your server simply crashes and no one gets it. But the more popular your file becomes, the more you are punished by soaring bandwidth costs. You have something terrific to publish - a large music or video file, software, a game or anything else that many people would like to have. ('Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one' - journalist A.J.
BitTorrent gives you the same freedom to publish previously enjoyed by only a select few with special equipment and lots of money.
