Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: Bittorrent Protocol

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He Ethan

thanks for your reply.
Sorry, i must take back my argument about bittorrent.
This protocol uses a central server.
This is gneration 2 of p2p.
We need a serverless network (generation 3)
This is overnet or gnutella only !
Overnet is closed source. There is only gnutella.

Ethan Blanton schrieb:
> But why not just put up a bittorrent server and then publish the URLs
> as regular old URLs?  We can already handle this via our browser
> mechanism or what-have-you.

***The goal is to make a URL-Catcher for files in the Message Window.***
This could be bittorrent, of course, but standard and decentral is
MAGNET URI.

> 
> > Do you agree, that a swarming is faster and better than a bidirectional
> > A to B Transfer ?
> 
> Eh, doesn't make much difference to me.  The important thing is
> network-friendly ... as long as you're doing your swarming over TCP
> I'm happy.

Come on, say yes, that it is more network friendly to upload a file only
once 
than to upload a file 10 times from A to Z if you want to send a file to
10 buddies at once..
TCP is used with gntuella. Just send 1ß0 buddies the MAGNET URI LINK of
the file you want to transfer ot of the shared (or even Sha1 (= magnet-)
hashed) file directory of GAIM.
 
> > Contra Bittorrent spreaks, that you always need a Torrent-link, because
> > Torrent has no Search engine. this is not customer friendly, because
> > every user wants to search ..
> 
> Yes, but the search algorithms out there are _bad for the Internet_.

Yo will not heal the world by not supporting p2p.
The internet-bandwidth is existing for the purpose to use it !

:-)