two quick points. 1) you don't have to re-upload the whole video just the sha1 or some sort of hash of the assigned chunk. 2) should be relatively strait froward to catch abuse via assigned user id's to each chunk uploaded. But checking the sha1 a few times from other random clients that are encoding other pieces would make abuse very difficult... at the cost of a few small http requests after the encode is done, and at a cost of slightly more CPU cylces of the computing pool. But as this thread has pointed out CPU cycles are much cheaper than bandwidth bits or humans time patrolling derivatives.
We have the advantage with a system like Firefogg that we control the version of the encoder pushed out to clients via auto-update and check that before accepting their participation (so sha1s should match if the client is not doing anything fishy) But these are version 2 type features conditioned on 1) Bandwidth being cheep and internal computer system maintenance and acquisition being slightly more costly. (and or 2) We probably want to integrating a thin bittorrent client into firefogg so we hit the "sending out the source footage only once" upstream cost ratio. We need to start exploring the bittorrent integration anyway to distribute the bandwidth cost on the distribution side. So this work would lead us in a good direction as well. peace, --michael Tisza Gergő wrote: > Steve Bennett <stevagewp <at> gmail.com> writes: > > >> Why are we suddenly concerned about someone sneaking obscenity onto a >> wiki? As if no one has ever snuck a rude picture onto a main page... >> > > There is a slight difference between vandalism that shows up in recent changes > and one that leaves no trail at all except maybe in log files only accessible > for sysadmins. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
