I'm not sure this would work in the real world. Even a movie with different translations would have non-matching 16KB chunks because audio and video frames are interleaved. Unless you have separate audio/video channels, I don't see how this would ever work.
Furthermore, different rips of the same CD track are likely not identical unless the codec happens to be exactly the same. (Is this true? I'm not sure if there is homogeny between MP3 encoders.) As for software packages, the contained files are generally compressed, throwing off all similarity. And even if not compressed, unless they are perfectly byte aligned (a 1 in 65536 chance), they won't match up. So I just don't see how this would work in the real world. Am I misunderstanding it? -david > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:p2p-hackers- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FabrÃcio Barros Cabral > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [p2p-hackers] Computer scientists develop P2P system that > promisesfaster music, movie downloads > > A Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist says transferring large > data files, such as movies and music, over the Internet could be sped up > significantly if peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services were > configured to share not only identical files, but also similar files. > > http://www.physorg.com/news95436100.html > > []'s > > --fx > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
