Re: [discuss] Bittorrent

Azureus is a really nice program, and GPL, so (after considering due politeness
to its author(s) and community perceptions), it seems that large portions could
be merged with LimeWire (or vice versa).

I still think content-distribution nirvana will occur when there's a global
DHT backed by HTTP sources and URN naming, but clearly that future still has
some simmering to arrive, and needs some novel throttling/feedback mechanisms
which can match the tracker/tit-for-tatness of BT.

Perhaps an official magnet attribute for pointing to a .torrent URI (or
more generally, 'alternate location location' signifying the extra indirection)
is a good idea...?

- Gordon

Susheel M. Daswani wrote:
> Hi Gregorio,
> Nothing is final yet but there is a good chance we'll be adding torrent 
> file support to LimeWire in the near future.  We've been 
> discussing/investigating the possiblity for a while now.  As much as 
> we'd like to see magnets take off, torrents are the clear winner now and 
> probably in the future.
> 
> Thanks!
> Susheel
> 
> Gregorio Roper wrote:
> 
>> I just come back from trying Bittorrent (namely Azureus) and I must 
>> say I'm a little impressed. I wouldn't go as far as suggesting a 
>> Bittorrent plugin for LimeWire but some of  the Azureus/Bittorrent 
>> features would certainly be nice to have.
>>
>> Azureus has the ability to share and download collecions of files or 
>> complete folders. It also has UPnP support (completely in java). 
>> Especially the ability of firewalled hosts to share partial files is 
>> really neat, - since LimeWire is going to use UDP pushes anyway, what 
>> would speak against adding push-proxy-alt-locs for firewalled hosts to 
>> the download mesh?
>>
>> mfg
>> gregorio
>>
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