Bittorrent is the latest Killer Ap.
Nov. 9th, 2004 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupSo, according to this article, bittorrent and its files are now using up roughly 1/3 of the Internet's current bandwidth. I must confess that right at this moment I am using it to download the last piece of the 'Future is Wild' special that I failed to completely tape while it was on TV last summer, so I can see how this could be possible.
The thing is, while![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_sps_ and I were at Softguard, we came up with a design for a peer-to-peer system that would be superior (IMNSHO) to bittorent, in that it would not only distribute chunks in a bittorrent-like manner but would also spawn broadcast nodes when under heavy use, would support wiki-like editing of file metadata (including license info) and would allow for 'latent' searches that could continue while you were logged off. There may even be a good revenue model for it, but that would require careful design and consideration.
The thing is, while
_sps_ and I were at Softguard, we came up with a design for a peer-to-peer system that would be superior (IMNSHO) to bittorent, in that it would not only distribute chunks in a bittorrent-like manner but would also spawn broadcast nodes when under heavy use, would support wiki-like editing of file metadata (including license info) and would allow for 'latent' searches that could continue while you were logged off. There may even be a good revenue model for it, but that would require careful design and consideration.
