BitTorrent v2
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BitTorrent v2
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#2It would be nice to have a torrent system where noone that is uploading has all the data for a specific torrent (or at least they arent uploading the whole file to any specfic person... probably would be harder to prosecute in the event that some files become illegal)... You could take 1% of the billonaire's fortune and give it to the "victims" and everyone would be happy.
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#3I've written a torrent client, and I'm skeptical than v2 will ever catch on. While it does solve some minor problems, it's not a large enough leap forward to justify the costs.
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#4It would be nice to have a torrent system where noone that is uploading has all the data for a specific torrent (or at least they arent uploading the whole file to any specfic person... probably would be harder to prosecute in the event that some files become illegal)... You could take 1% of the billonaire's fortune and give it to the "victims" and everyone would be happy.
No one can have all the files and BitTorrent works just fine. Though, I don't see why anyone wouldn't want the whole file. What's the point if you can't actually use what you downloaded?
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#5It would be nice to have a torrent system where noone that is uploading has all the data for a specific torrent (or at least they arent uploading the whole file to any specfic person... probably would be harder to prosecute in the event that some files become illegal)... You could take 1% of the billonaire's fortune and give it to the "victims" and everyone would be happy.
Im not sure how that would work technically speaking if there is just a single seeder and leecher, also don't you become an accomplice for helping?
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#6It would be nice to have a torrent system where noone that is uploading has all the data for a specific torrent (or at least they arent uploading the whole file to any specfic person... probably would be harder to prosecute in the event that some files become illegal)... You could take 1% of the billonaire's fortune and give it to the "victims" and everyone would be happy.
Can't this already be true? You do not need the entire torrent in order to seed downloads. Clients leeching know which blocks seeders are providing and will download what's available.
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#7It would be nice to have a torrent system where noone that is uploading has all the data for a specific torrent (or at least they arent uploading the whole file to any specfic person... probably would be harder to prosecute in the event that some files become illegal)... You could take 1% of the billonaire's fortune and give it to the "victims" and everyone would be happy.
Sounds a bit like freenet: https://freenetproject.org
Re: BitTorrent v2
#8I've written a torrent client, and I'm skeptical than v2 will ever catch on. While it does solve some minor problems, it's not a large enough leap forward to justify the costs.
If a couple major players adopt a hybrid system then it could perhaps
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#9It would be nice to have a torrent system where noone that is uploading has all the data for a specific torrent (or at least they arent uploading the whole file to any specfic person... probably would be harder to prosecute in the event that some files become illegal)... You could take 1% of the billonaire's fortune and give it to the "victims" and everyone would be happy.
If you share significant parts of a copyright protected work, you're probably still on the hook. For most things, it's not actually the files that are copyrighted, it's the content encoded in them.
At some point, I suppose things get very fuzzy, e.g. you're just uploading a single second of an album, but I don't know who practically useful that would be.
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#10It would be nice to have a torrent system where noone that is uploading has all the data for a specific torrent (or at least they arent uploading the whole file to any specfic person... probably would be harder to prosecute in the event that some files become illegal)... You could take 1% of the billonaire's fortune and give it to the "victims" and everyone would be happy.
No one can have all the files and BitTorrent works just fine. Though, I don't see why anyone wouldn't want the whole file. What's the point if you can't actually use what you downloaded?
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