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Which is in turn evidence of the myth of broadband, if a bunch of people interested in a few pictures of a boat incident can crush an ISP. But it's certainly true; some back of the envelope calculations say that it certainly could result in that sort of network requirement.
What really SHOULD happen in cases like these: the whole shootin' match should go on Morpheus or some other P2P arrangement. Then it doesn't matter how much bandwidth is needed; people will naturally share.
Now imagine if peer-to-peer sharing of this sort were included in the browser, so that a request could be managed through the browser interface AND such requests could be linked into web sites.
You hear me knockin'?
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