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On July 23, 2003 11:35 pm, bdharring wrote: |
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> I realize this particular horse has been beaten well past it's death, |
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> but why create a separate p2p system instead of using bit torrent? |
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> Just curious, I'm aware of how bit torrent is structured, but that's |
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> about it... |
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Bittorrent is well suited to distrubuting a small number of large files, |
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that is what it was designed for. The downside is you need a separate |
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instance of bittorrent running for every file that you are shaing, so |
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if you are sharing several hundred files you need several hundred |
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copies of bittorrent running. |
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Another problem is that in bittorrent the client side server and the |
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fetcher is the same program, for our purposes we need a separate |
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program to perform each function. |
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> Other then that, you've mentioned that you're attempting a proof of |
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> concept, care to elaborate on some of the aspects of the particular |
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> p2p system you're attempting to create/test? |
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> ~bdh |
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Lets see: |
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Central repository of hashes for security. |
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Only authorized files will be shareable. |
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Separate server and fetcher program. |
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Will download simultaneously from multiple sources. |
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Drop in replacement for wget via FETCHCOMMAND= |
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Rate Limiting on the server (but not to 0). |
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The fetcher will automatically start the server (to limit leaching) |
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Will automatically share your distfiles directory |
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??? |
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It is NOT being designed as a general purpose p2p program. I have no |
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desire to become a target of the MPAA or RIAA |
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