Distrituting Giant Files
- From: Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:10:13 GMT
I have been studying up on the latest BitTorrent.
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/bittorrent.html
It lets you distribute very large files with minimal overhead on your
part.
You don't need ANY serverside software. What you do need is a PC
running BitTorrent client with access to the bundles you want to
distribute. This is called the seed. If many people download, people
mostly share the pages with each other. So no matter how many
downloaders there are, your overhead does not increase.
So this lets you could distribute whacking create downloads like JVMs,
radio shows, videos, movies, rants, with minimal investment, justan
old PC in your LAN.
There is a Java BitTorrent client called Azureus.
The only thing you have to do to your server is set up .the .torrent
mime type application/x-bittorrent.
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