On 1/5/07, Priyanka Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i dunno .. maybe the killer feature is that web browsers are really bad when you use them for downloading files of any kind thats above a few KBs, especially if you are on a low bandwidth connection like a dialup line or you are in india... or on a high corruption connection like wireless where the tcp connection starts behaving wierd...
I'm not saying that parallel downloading is a bad idea, I'm just saying that BitTorrent is a poor design for parallel downloading. I think parallel downloading is fantastic feature for a whole lot of reasons, and I think every web browser should do it. They just shouldn't do it with BitTorrent. Having a separate manner of dealing with large files, without a user having
to worry too much about putting that file in the proper place in a web server directory, makes it all the more worthwhile??
Hmnn...I agree parallel downloading is great for large files, and I'm all for it! BitTorrent makes the process of where to put files far more cumbersome than should be necessary, though. There's really no reason to create "torrents" apart from plain old files. All you need is a hash of the file and a service for looking up duplicates. This is again an issue of protocol layering. -Adam
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