Re: What BitTorrent does right...

--- In BitTorrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jeremy Avnet <mlist-yahoo@xxxx>
wrote:
> * Thomas Edwards wrote (Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:15:38PM -0500):
> > Of course, Freenet is really supposed to be a different beast
> > altogether, concentrating on anonymity.  But it still isn't
> > easy to use.
> 
> FreeNet and BitTorrent are solving very different problems.
> BitTorrent is trying to solve the problems that arise when you
> want to distribute large, popular files. FreeNet is trying to
> solve the problems that arise when you want to distribute
> and/or retrieve controversial files.

Like .torrent files. Most bittorrent web sites have had availability
problems -- bandwidth limits, DoS attacks, etc. It would be great if
our small .torrent files were distributed using a protocol designed
for anonymity, integrity, and availability.

As the previous poster observed, though, the FreeNet implementation is
kind of heavy, so it may difficult to get people to use it.

Jim Bob



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