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Finally Real P2P With Brains

Posted by timothy on from the single-counterexample dept.

dfelznic writes: "The mp3 archives of CodeCon are now availble, which is news in itself. But what makes this real interesting is that they are being distributed by BitTorrent. BitTorrent allows users to download a file from multiple different people. Instead of everyone nailing one server, users get the file from other users. Furthurnet uses a similar technology to distribute legal bootlegs of concerts. The archive is available at the BitTorrent demo downloads page. As soon as I started downloading (cable modem) at around 300k I got a request for the file and began uploading at 40k. This could be the answer to the slashdot effect;) Now, who is going to be the first to complain about the use of mp3s instead of oggs?"

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  1. Re:Nice. by shankark · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's true. But I think a workaround for this would be to have md5 signatures computed for each of these parts and verify them before they are downloaded. I'm not sure if this isn't being done by others already.

  2. Been there done that... by mo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hate to rain on the parade but Morpheus et al. as well as the latest version of BearShare both do this, and have for some time.
    When you say p2p with brains, to me it means somebody has come up with a elegant balance between centralization and search speeds.

  3. Re:Will not help the slashdot effect by Com2Kid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uh.. . .

    The idea was to help sites that GET linked to BY Slashdot. /. itself is not, AFAIK, having bandwidth problems.

    You know, those small user pages with some cool casemod on it?

    This network would allow viewers of the site to download the images from EACH OTHER instead of from the main server.

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  4. Re:Nice BUT.... by treat · · Score: 3, Insightful
    MD5 is *not* suitable for ensuring that two files are identical when a malicious user is involved. It *is* suitable for ensuring that a malicious user may not hand you anything that passes but pure garbage (given what we know about MD5 today).

    I challenge you to find me any two sets of data with the same md5.