On 1/4/07, Adam Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've said this elsewhere, but I don't necessarily think BitTorrent support would be a good thing. BitTorrent's a crappy protocol for a bunch of reasons, and it's getting closer and closer to being a bad Internet standard not sactioned through any standards body.
Are you referring to the various implementations of DHTs, ISP caching protocol (BitTorrent), protocol scrambling feature (Azureus), extensions (like Azureus' download chat extention?). If i'm not mistaken, the baseline form doesn't change... And bittorrent is still the best big-file-download-on-clik method (on the p2p side), at least for media content delivery or ISO downloading. The best one being in my opinion multi-source http downloading for corporate/commercial needs. Hopefully this ends with other clients outperforming BitTorrent in the
market
I'm sorry, weren't you talking about the protocol? , but we're in danger of standardizing on a poorly designed architecture in
all adopting BitTorrent.
By the way, are there any similar protocols (in terms of instant single-file-downloading features) possibly in the research area, which may come in competition with BitTorrent in a near future ? As for the downloading applet, i find this very interesting because the mainstream computer users dont't want to/can't install/configure Bittorrent clients. It's the first time i see an approch of giving Bittorrent support to browsers (supporting Java), apart of Opera's plans to integrate it natively. Maybe my ISP throttles my BW usage, but the more bittorrent is employed, the slower it seems to me (in comparison to 5 yrs ago). Is it an indication that Bittorrent isn't really scalable because of the IP network architecture drawbacks? Thanks Florent
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