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<p>Well yes, but torrent is a distribution mechanism - it's not an
infrastructure for maintaining or mirroring files. It's
essentially another, sometimes more efficient, option for
click-to-download (e.g., ftp, http, bittorrent). And it's only
more efficient if multiple people are downloading at the same
time.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/25/19 12:28 PM, Richard Bennett
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No, Bittorrent uses DHTs and accesses as many copies of a given
file as users choose to share. It has to be running to serve
files, however.
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<div class="">On Feb 25, 2019, at 9:59 AM, Miles Fidelman
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<div class="">On 2/24/19 9:53 PM, John Levine wrote:<br
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">That's what I find
intriguing about my Benevolent BotNet notion.
Rather<br class="">
than depending on finding an institution interested
in, competent at,<br class="">
and willing to save history, and hoping that it has
longevity, you rely<br class="">
on a network of volunteers to provide that
survivable infrastructure by<br class="">
volunteering their excess computing resources.<br
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Hi again. Please look at Bittorrent and tell us how
it is different<br class="">
from what you're proposing.<br class="">
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Bittorrent has the advantage of already existing and
being deployed<br class="">
all over the world. It's notorious for pirated music
but it's also<br class="">
widely used for sharing linux distributions and the
like.<br class="">
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Bit torrent is transient. It's more like an ad-hoc
multi-cast <br class="">
streaming. When nobody is downloading, there may be
only one copy of <br class="">
the file.<br class="">
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Now gnutella, and some of the other P2P file sharing
systems - that <br class="">
replicate copies, or distribute files across a
distributed hash table - <br class="">
that's another story entirely.<br class="">
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In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra<br class="">
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra</pre>
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