Tony Shepps wrote: > There oughta be - and maybe there is, I don't know about this sort of > thing - a hyperlink to search a p2p network. And then, there oughta be > a partial p2p client, perhaps one that would only search and leech > files and not share them, that could be invoked by such a link. > > Whaddya think?
Doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of p2p networks? One of the whole points of such networks is that every file downloaded is automatically shared and so the network is naturally self-load-balancing. The more popular a file is, the more times it is downloaded, and the more computers it is shared on...
