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Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2 Users?

Posted by timothy on from the we-had-one-atom-to-share-and-liked-it dept.

FastDownload writes "New technology for doing mulitsource/multithread downloads of ISOs is making Linux users on Internet2 happy. It's called Logistical Networking and is being developed at the University of Tennessee. Though there are some obvious similarities to Bit Torrent, Logistical Networking uses fixed, shared infrastructure instead of being peer-to-peer, which makes it useful for moving big content even when no peers are available."

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  1. Re:Yeah right... linux isos..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You stupid fuck, piracy isn't killing it, its the reason it exists. Do you think you would know what "p2p" stood for if it wasn't for napster and kazaa? File sharing tech has always been driven by piracy, legitimate uses have always come second.

  2. Re:BitTorrent is too ad-hoc by Kris_J · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought ad-hoc was a good thing. Sure, businesses who want things to be simple and predictable might consider ad-hoc to be unworkable, but there's heaps of "little people" out there without big budgets that benefit from co-operative networks that can be assembled as needed by everyone pitching in their bit.

  3. Re:Oh please [OT] by Magila · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sure it'd be great if Freenet was working nicly, but that's a big if. It's been in development for more than 3 years now and they're still not even close to having a network that's ready for use by the masses. I'm not sure it'll ever get to that point either. One of the golden rules of P2P is that bandwidth is precious, yet Freenet merily uses n times the amount of data being moved in bandwidth passing that data up a chain of nodes to preserve anonimity. This is probably going to forever relagate Freenet to solution-in-search-of-a-problem staus as the vast majority of people arn't that worried about anonimity.

  4. mod_torrent is the way to solve this by belphegore · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The way to go here is to make serving content through bittorrent easier. Ideally, as easy as publishing a resource on a web server (that is, copy a file into a directory and figure out what the URL is). This is the goal of the mod_torrent project. We're building an apache plugin on top of libtorrent which automatically creates torrents in response to http requests, and then begins serving them, in response to conditions on the apache server. Load is low? Fine, service with good-old HTTP the normal way. Load is high? Instead of a direct HTTP download, instead have the HTTP GET respond with an application/torrent file, which then launches bt to grab the content (all automatic). Goodbye slashdot effect.

  5. Re:P2P is NOT Going Anywhere by calebtucker · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, I remember during my freshman year in the dorm I'd do "research" in a divx trading irc channel just for internt2 .edu connections (heh, a script would only give you +v if you had .edu in your host).

    I guess research was the original intent, but obviously not the only use.

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  6. Re:bittorrent.... by Wolfrider · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. Get To Know your Campus Admin
    2. Buy Him/Her $quantity of their favorite $consumable
    3. Ask for Local Bittorrent Access
    4. Profit!

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