PDTP - The Best of Both FTP and BitTorrent?

ikewillis writes "For awhile I've been following the development of PDTP (Peer Distributed Transfer Protocol), which is trying to merge the concepts of FTP and BitTorrent. This sounds like it could be useful for apt-get repositories or other high demand FTP sites. It's designed to be used as part of scalable networks which could replace manual selection of FTP mirrors. It also supports a number of other nifty features like cryptographic file signatures. Isn't it about time we ditched FTP for something better?"

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Re:This isn't fair...

[GPLDAN]

Hey Cluster, you invented a new term that requires canonization. "Denial-of-normal".

Submit it to wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_slang

Re:think about that sentence:

[Deraj DeZine]

Problems solved:

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