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How hard would it be to make a torrent:// protocol extension that allows web like content to be stored in torrents? Obviously that would only work for static content (unless the creation of such torrents could be used to preserve state) but this seems like an interesting development. Decentralized hosting of content that can easily be browsed seems like a useful thing to have.
This is a very cool project but it is not compatible with current bittorrent clients. It uses webrtc for the transport instead of UDP. In order for it to be compatible with traditional bittorrent clients, those clients would have to implement communication with webtorrent clients, which hopefully shouldn't be too hard, still as of now it won't work with current clients. Still very cool though and I hope traditional c…
But I though webrtc still needed dedicated servers to punch through NAT ?
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/infrastructure...
It would be interesting to know if the developer looked at btapp.js and if so, why did he decide not to use it? Getting this technology web embeddable will go a long way to start making peer-to-peer a convenient method of downloading content vs directly downloading from a server, there's always going to be further hurdles to overcome with reliability in a case where the swarm lifetime is very short, but seeding with a few servers can help in that situation. If a web app could upload the torrent and data to a server to seed, then replicate it in a few locations it could be a decent DCDN.
[1] http://pwmckenna.com/2012/06/29/making-of-paddle-over.html
Seems similar to PaddleOver [1] which was developed by Bittorrent inc a few years ago using their Btapp.js [2] library, unfortunately the PaddleOver site has expired and the code base hasn't been updated in a year. It would be interesting to know if the developer looked at btapp.js and if so, why did he decide not to use it? Getting this technology web embeddable will go a long way to start making peer-to-peer a conv…
Something that is done purely with cross-browser compatible web technologies is far more interesting and promising.
A significant drawback is that you'll have to keep a tab open for seeding. And no DHT support either.
BT clients are best operated in a daemon-like fashion with access to system facilities such as inotify, udp and tcp sockets alike and as something that does not compete for CPU time/garbage collection/file descriptors/etc. resources with interactive web browsing.
Seems similar to PaddleOver [1] which was developed by Bittorrent inc a few years ago using their Btapp.js [2] library, unfortunately the PaddleOver site has expired and the code base hasn't been updated in a year. It would be interesting to know if the developer looked at btapp.js and if so, why did he decide not to use it? Getting this technology web embeddable will go a long way to start making peer-to-peer a conv…
Btapp.js is just a JavaScript API that acts like an interface to their closed-source, Windows-and-OSX-only browser plugin Torque: https://github.com/bittorrenttorque/btapp/issues/11 Something that is done purely with cross-browser compatible web technologies is far more interesting and promising.
While that's a neat tech toy I don't think the browser is a good platform for a torrent client. A significant drawback is that you'll have to keep a tab open for seeding. And no DHT support either. BT clients are best operated in a daemon-like fashion with access to system facilities such as inotify, udp and tcp sockets alike and as something that does not compete for CPU time/garbage collection/file descriptors/etc.…
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I don't have a scanner ready, but it was a pretty standard letter. If you search for "Abmahnung Waldorf Frommer" you should find some cover letters (in German). Waldorf Frommer is one law firm that is well known for sending those letters. It was basically one page explaining that one violated copyright, giving the file name, the date, and the IP address; then a few pages detailing the appropriate laws, explaining how…
Wow. I would have never ever paid. But I can see why such a strategy would work on their part. I wonder how many of those letters they send out and how many people stand up to them in court and what the outcome is of those cases.
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Wow. I would have never ever paid. But I can see why such a strategy would work on their part. I wonder how many of those letters they send out and how many people stand up to them in court and what the outcome is of those cases.
What would you have done (in by that, I mean "what do you advise normal people who aren't well-known, don't have a good knowledge of technology, and don't have a ton of money, to do")?
On top of that I would have used the (firm) German privacy laws to use the discovery process to figure out if they had obtained my (private!) name, address etc in a legal way.
To me this seems like a racket and I highly doubt that the case would have ever gone to court.
I would expect an outcome like this:
https://torrentfreak.com/evidence-against-bittorrent-users-s...
And without a ton of money the German state would likely appoint a legal representative.
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What would you have done (in by that, I mean "what do you advise normal people who aren't well-known, don't have a good knowledge of technology, and don't have a ton of money, to do")?
I would have definitely gone to court arguing that my IP address and me are not the same entity. On top of that I would have used the (firm) German privacy laws to use the discovery process to figure out if they had obtained my (private!) name, address etc in a legal way. To me this seems like a racket and I highly doubt that the case would have ever gone to court. I would expect an outcome like this: https://torrent…