Totally agree with Serguei. My wish list of BT improvements probably has little to do with BT, and more with the tracker sites:
1) Get rid of pointless RAR encoding 2) Add digital signing of torrents and use ebay style ratings (to filter out fakes) 3) Pick the best of a given piece of content rather than list a bunch of equivalents 4) Have metadata based indexing rather than just keywords (title, season, episode, artist, album, etc) 5) Download contiguously once the swarm is sufficiently healthy to enable streaming 6) NAT penetration 7) Better RSS support tied to digital signing 8) Better client-side, tivo-like player to take out the manual tedium (also provides implicit feedback mechanism to supply ratings data) -david On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 1:17 pm, Serguei Osokine wrote: > On Thursday, November 01, 2007 John Nilsson wrote: >> Are the dwellers of this list involved in (or otherwise have >> opinions about) the Pirate Bays attempt to engineer a BitTorrent >> replacement?[1] > > Looks interesting - but OTOH, who am I to judge; I find almost > everything related to P2P interesting :-) > > Hard to filter out the original plan among all the suggestions, > though - there are almost hundred Wikei edits in the past 20 hours > alone, so it is difficult to say which of those are going to be > treated seriously and which will never merit a second look. Some > of these suggestions are quite interesting - my personal favourites > so far are the whois/BGP suggestions for the traffic containment > within a particular ISP network. Others are less interesting, and > some can probably cripple the network from the start (everything > that requires any user interaction on the software installation > and setup phase, IMHO). > > Would be interesting to know who is the driving force behind > all that and what are the problems that are to be solved with this > design effort. The answers to these questions should determine the > fate of most suggestions. What is the goal of all the security and > encryption suggestions, for example? Is containing traffic inside > an ISP an important goal? What about rare content availability? Is > the search functionality even on the map or the central web site is > to be used to look up the content? This kind of stuff. > > I mean, the abstract goal of improving BT stated on the main > page does not tell much until the directions of this improvement are > defined. BT works just fine from many points of view, and it is not > a good idea to improve something that works just for fun - there > should be a clear list of areas where BT sucks and what has to be > done to improve that. > > In any case, thank you for the link - for sure, it will be very > interesting to see where all this will go, once the initial flood of > suggestions will subside a bit. > > Best wishes - > S.Osokine. > 1 Nov 2007. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Nilsson > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [p2p-hackers] The PIrate Bay, BitTorrent and p2p-hackers > > Hi, > > Are the dwellers of this list involved in (or otherwise have opinions > about) the Pirate Bays attempt to engineer a BitTorrent replacement?[1] > > Regards, > John > > [1] http://securep2p.net/index.php/ProtocolDesgin > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
