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Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:42:22 +0800
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote:
most of the larger free-nix's do BT downloads on release day(s). Revision3 distributes their content via BT. There were rumors of Disney and Apple moving to BT models for their content distribution at one point as well.
<random type="idea from tonight"> If only there was a way for a SP to run a BitTorrent type service for their clients, subscribing the BT server(s) to known-good (ie, not warez-y) torrents pre-seeded from trusted sources and then leaving it the hell alone and not having to continuously dump specific torrent files into it. </random> Hm! Adrian
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- Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!? Christopher Morrow (Jun 17)
- Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!? Brandon Galbraith (Jun 17)
- Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!? Adrian Chadd (Jun 18)
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- Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!? Warren Kumari (Jun 18)
- Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!? Adrian Chadd (Jun 18)
- Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!? Christopher Morrow (Jun 17)
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