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P2P Content Delivery for Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-smart dept.

Orasis writes "The Open Content Network is a collaborative effort to help deliver open source, public domain, and Creative Commons-licensed content using peer-to-peer technology. The network is essentially a huge 'virtual web server' that links together thousands of computers for the purpose of helping out over-burdened/slashdotted web sites. Any existing mirror or web site can easily join the OCN by tweaking the HTML on their site."

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  1. Is this the silliest thing ever? by Bob+Abooey · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Why would you want to go through the pain the the arse of loading up a P2P client, then going through the search process, then clicking download.. oh wait, it's queued up, okay I'll go try some other people, okay, click on download, oh wait, that person logged off, okay, OH IT'S COMING DOWN NOW!!! Oh wait, the guy it's coming down from is also allowing 35 other downloads and I'm getting it at .0005K which should complete sometime in August. Okay I'm getting another one, oh wait, that's an older vesion... oh crap... etc

    Really. I can go to the distribitors website and click on "download" and save myself all the trouble.

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  2. Revolutionary thinking by Loki_1929 · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Indeed. It's a shame no one thought of it sooner.

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