-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 BitTorrent on its own already does multi parallel segmented downloads, but it does so in a less abusive manner already, only opening one datastream per source. Additionally, each downloader that is participating is also available to be a partial mirror while downloading, and a complete mirror once complete.
Every time someone tries to be vocal about MetaLink, it makes me want to use them less and less. Francois Petillon wrote: | Anthony Bryan wrote: |> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink for more info. | | "For fast Internet connections, it also speeds up the process by | allowing chunks/segments of each file to be downloaded from multiple | resources at the same time (segmented downloading)". | | Parallel segmented downloads are anti-social (if you have to speed up | the download, it means there is a bottleneck somewhere, either on | network or on server, and by increasing the number of connections you | simply steal bandwidth/ressources from others people) and a waste of | server ressources. I just do not care about metalinks by itself but you | do promote that kind of abusive use. | | François | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBSGy5MF8nceBm0DUaAQKv5wgAg2I6ktUSLl3l4dpHO/5AdUv0ge3J1ezs kjtAcEcmqfyXuD1+K8N1njtnpC3OeZer9hCMbij+2NHZz24SVLSCABCmnVgeKr74 yAZiVaMBnz1l12le/xQdGdrCaNzsR3OkE6yjTDhOYzIhdqCyMQBB0r1t46HoRZHX ElrSIjIuryOe8hoOiFAvz9rF42sVFQXpstdyfJOtK3Vim018zPV6S5/iCGzKofnG iPBDulXktmCeDWnTTDVfoOT3qfNN4rFx4hir6se7TzPGIAaQxs/EO8qAiX9VFUnr qP4yY7Ho5WXimh/1X38bc7LOFluJ0Rv06Je/hd53NMnPSLTmwq6OZw== =ZMij -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
