Wired: The BitTorrent Effect
“Bram will just pace around the house all day long, back and forth, in and out of the kitchen. Then he’ll suddenly go to his computer and the code just comes pouring out. And you can see by the lines on the screen that it’s clean,” Jenna says. “It’s clean code.” She pats her husband affectionately on the head: “My sweet little autistic nerd boy.” (Cohen in fact has Asperger’s syndrome, a condition on the mild end of the autism spectrum that gives him almost superhuman powers of concentration but can make it difficult for him to relate to other people.)
The geeks shall take over the world and the bits shall be set free!
Risk Your PC’s Health for a Song?
This is stupid, and once again proves that filenames don’t work when it comes to the distribution of static data files. Instead, a legitamite publisher should directly link to the file using its hash.
Again, given a hash, there is theoretically only one origional file that represents it. Thus, the publisher can almost guarantee that the file downloaded by the subscriber is legitamite.
Why are so many people stupid?
Dijjer is YAP2PC (yet another P2P cache).
This is cool, a publisher doesn’t even need to do anything to support it.
My suggestion is to use an HTTP proxy instead of a regular webserver. This way, all web data would work with Dijjer, not just stuff explictly used.
Ultamitely, though, this is only a transitional solution. Eventually, we will all want to move to hash based content distribution systems. As for metadata, again, we’ll use the XML-based IM standard, XMPP.
