The major use case for this seems to be where multiple people upload fairly similar versions of the same file. This approach might be interesting technically, but I don't think this is useful for many real-world use cases beyond piracy.

On Apr 11, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Fabrício Barros Cabral wrote:

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

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