One of the very legitimate uses of bittorrent is to solve this problem elegantly.
Sending out a gig of data even on EC2 (which is pretty expensive) costs about $0.10.
They can have my credit card details online via a secure http connection for the $1 they'll have to charge me to make up on the fees. Even beter, now they have that data instead of best buy.
After all, I highly doubt the privacy watchdogs would agree to bestbuy passing that information (especially the cc data) up the chain to the supplier.
After all, I highly doubt the privacy watchdogs would agree to bestbuy passing that information (especially the cc data) up the chain to the supplier.
Why not? Doesn't seem to be any different than buying and activating an iPhone at an Apple store. AT&T gets all of your billing information from Apple. If anything, it seems likely that Best Buy could do much tighter integration without anyone getting concerned.
Sending out a gig of data even on EC2 (which is pretty expensive) costs about $0.10.
They can have my credit card details online via a secure http connection for the $1 they'll have to charge me to make up on the fees. Even beter, now they have that data instead of best buy.
After all, I highly doubt the privacy watchdogs would agree to bestbuy passing that information (especially the cc data) up the chain to the supplier.