Filesharing Review > BitTorrent: Old Technology in a New Box
[Route 183] The myth of BitTorrent goes something like this: Bram Cohen, hacker extraordinaire, realized circa 2001 that it would be more efficient to break files up into pieces on different servers and to download those pieces separately. This would distribute the load across multiple servers, providing a more robust architecture for accessing the file.
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[Downhillbattle.org] Downhill Battle: Mirah is a singer-songwriter extraordinaire, and she is part of the K Records family-- a great example of how a record label should work.
[Collisiondetection.net] collision detection: Excellent DRM debate from my Bittorrent article: And, as Cory points out in his post, there are so many other problems with DRM -- such as the fact that content owners can change the rules as they go and make your paid-for content "vanish" -- that one could reasonably conclude that DRM is a total bust. You could argue fairly that I was being pretty naive in assuming the marketplace of content owners will suddenly become more enlightened than they've been in the past.
[Oreillynet.com] O'Reilly Digital Media Blog: YouServ takes a P2P approach to provide an easy to use cooperative web server that works automatically behind firewalls or NATs, ensures secure content access, provides a single login for restricted access, and provides search capabilities. The system relies on a central server to act as the single login access point and as presence manager which keeps track of the nodes in the P2P network that are currently available to serve the content of the cooperative web server.
[Blog.wired.com] Monkey Bites: Patrick Norton over at PC Magazine has written a review of the four most popular BitTorrent clients. The introduction to the review contains a succinct, informative primer on how the technology works and why it behaves the way it does.
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