On Thursday, September 21, 2023, at 4:32 PM, immortal.discoveries wrote: > Just had an idea. > Give computer users a warning system, so if any their links has say only 3 or > 10 copies around the world, it downloads it to their computer when they are > ready to download it
Have you heard of BitTorrent <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent> technology? You register your computer as a host, and you host a small fraction of file, together with hundreds of your colleagues, each hosting its fraction of file. On the hub on web the torrent file is put together for downloading. Many local computers can host the same fraction of file, so that some computers may be inactive sometimes. I don't know how far this tech went, but last time I checked (10 years ago), all the clients may had to host the entire file. The pros was speed of download, as many connections from the same machine could download the different portions of the same file at the same time. But hosting only file parts may be in a direction of your thoughts. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T414bc941cdd95c2d-M957d70405724a0dd030f7edb Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
