Re: several extensions to bittorrent
Jesus Cea <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.bit-torrent.general |
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| Organization | Argo Redes y Servicios Telematicos, S.A. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
stefnighthawk wrote: > first proposed extension : leech mode. Current BT protocol already support that. You simply refuse to upload, and peers will penalice you appropiately. You can still download if there is spare capacity in the swarm. > second proposed extension : members-only. > My proposal is to let the tracker make certain decisions on whether a > user is a subscriber or not. A subscriber could be given connections > to high capacity internal seeds which require username/password. Already done in some trackers. They recognize you by IP. for example: http://www.argo.es/~jcea/artic/bittorrent06.htm , http://www.argo.es/~jcea/artic/bittorrent08.htm > Please let me know if this is feasible, it should be more thought > through or if it is totally out of the question because it could hurt > the whole protocol. The proposals you do are implementation details, not relevant to the BT protocol itself. -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ [email protected] http://www.argo.es/~jcea/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ PGP Key Available at KeyServ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BitTorrent/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/