RE: [discuss] Bittorrent
"Greg Bildson" <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:59:26 -0400
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These are definitely some of the approaches that we are looking into. Thanks -greg -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Gordon Mohr (@ Bitzi) Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 1:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.limewire.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> . >> > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.limewire.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://www.limewire.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://www.limewire.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss