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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. Since when? by Some+Bitch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    indviduals will be able to help distribute free content by donating their spare bandwidth and disk space to the network.


    Sarcasm aside, while I can see where they're going with this I can't see it ever seriously taking off. Most of the world are still on 56k (or less) and I know I regularly hunt for things to delete so I can squeeze something else on my hard drive.

  2. Re:Bittorrent by c_ollier · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's open source peer-to-peer and handles exactly the problem of distributed serving.

    Yes, BT is exactly this. A good site about BT : http://smiler.no-ip.org/BT/info.php

    I don't see much difference between BT and OCN, by the way. Or am I missing something ?