If they just distribute the scripts and not the actual ASP engine then its perfectly legal. After all they do hold the copyright to their own scripts.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Brendan McNiff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Most of the websites out there using a server-side script in ASP or > such does not want to distribute their code, and can actually be > comitting piracy if they do so for illegal distribution of software. > This would only lead to trouble, and prolific piracy. > > On Dec 29, 5:16 am, bluetiger <[email protected]> wrote: > > hey all, > > > > wondering how well a torrent based web would work. shared load via > > surfers, site's could be downloaded and viewed/replaced /w local copy > > once available, and browsed for other cool stuff (how often do we find > > pic005.jpg and knowing there is an index called something. listed in > > the torrent could be the REST of the files. pic006, 007, 008, etc) > > > > just thought if chrome had it built in (torrent downloader/sites being > > viewed in real time as site gets seeded /w it's files then people can > > start seeding as they are viewing the website). really grid this > > interweb up! > > > > hoping someone can either explain why this idea would suck (ie, too > > slow for viewing....i'd argue that it's as fast as the 1 server at a > > time we currently get, main .com site could be server 1 and the > > torrent grid could find the other people hosting the site as they view > > it). > > > > the idea would cost bandwidth of the viewer but as a viewer i dont > > give a sh1t if i use a lil ul for a faster internet. it also seems to > > be the BIG hurdle for video streaming. i see radio streaming sites all > > over (winamp has shout's music service....100's of music channels). > > video not so much. like my daily news doesn't broadcast (yet) all of > > it's programming online (as there is no organization like the torrents > > seem to have, priority for download, ratio to prevent leeches, file > > preview (best to copy/view instead of viewing as sometimes can't save > > to an open file). > > > > let my browser have options like this built in and hopefully make the > > web faster by griding all the sites in torrents. im not saying > > browsing now ain't fairly fast for dsl/cable, just saying this web > > preview/prefetch is the way to go. have it on the pc before it's > > needed so the reader is never waiting. 56k could have their own set of > > options (don't dl pics 1st, never flash, more control over HOW we get > > data is nice) > > > > hope some of this could go into future versions. some sites might not > > host a torrent of their site. i can see lots that would happily tho. > > large news sites could give all the users at once the same news hosted > > from the 1 main server/website. maybe just a "host websites torrent > > style as you surf" speed boost option. > > > > if you go offline or yer 56k this could really help. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
