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P2P Through Firewalls
An anonymous submitter writes "A few stream-through-firewall applications have been announced recently. p2pnet has an interview with Ian Clarke about his new 'Dijjer' program, which promises to reduce bandwidth requirements from HTTP servers by transparently distributing the load. Slyck.com has an article about LimeWire's new version that offers firewall-to-firewall transfers (code here). [Both Dijjer and LimeWire are GPL'd.] There's also been a lot of discussion on the p2p hackers list about reliable UDP transfers."
Haha, so much for their "please avoid submitting it to any high-traffic web sites, it is not yet ready for primetime" policy. Good work, anonymous submitter.
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But... I thought that peer-to-peer sharing was horribly immoral and only used for warez and porn!!
No, it's used for warez, porn and mp3s.
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It's also poorly coded Java that runs slower than a retarded snail on NyQuil. That's reason enough for me to avoid it.
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
Dijjer uses a highly scalable distributed caching algorithm inspired by Freenet. This will allow it to deliver faster download speeds while placing less burden on the web server, and will be better able to handle sudden increases in demand for content.
Sweet! Maybe it will be as fast as Freenet!
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