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From: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CORE] Bittorrent?
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:13:34 -0800
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Marc,

> If I'm reading the FAQ/Documentation correctly ... and I may not be
> understanding it completely after a admittedly quick pursual ... it sounds
> like a 'napster for files', with ppl uploading to our servers, as well as
> downloading from it?

Yes, but they're OSS-friendly, popular, and several members of our community 
already use Bitorrent.  Among other things, Linux kernels get distributed 
over it.  It uses the p2p network to bypass bottlenecks at certain ftp sites, 
allowing you to stream the same download from 2-5 sites simultaneosly and 
saturate your download bandwidth.

I don't think we necessarily need to host a Bitorrent server at hub.org; I'm 
not clear on how joining bitorrent works, really.   I'll ask one of the 
current users.

-- 
-Josh Berkus

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