<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RB<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 25, 2019, at 9:59 AM, Miles Fidelman <<a href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net" class="">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 2/24/19 9:53 PM, John Levine wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><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 class=""></blockquote>Hi again. Please look at Bittorrent and tell us how it is different<br class="">from what you're proposing.<br class=""><br class="">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=""><br class=""></blockquote>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=""><br class="">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=""><br class="">-- <br class="">In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.<br class="">In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra<br class=""><br class="">_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org" class="">internet-history@postel.org</a><br class="">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history<br class="">Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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