[p2p-hackers] p2p in some place or other

Michael Rogers m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Tue Dec 13 11:24:53 UTC 2005


Serguei Osokine wrote:
> 	And the reason for this is quite understandable - if most of 
> the content exists in just one or two copies, what good are the swarm
> downloaders and other marvelous instruments of progress? This single
> copy that you need might be on a single host behind the modem in
> Albania, the host might go off-line at any moment, and to make it 
> more fun, it might be trying to upload five other files (different
> files, mind you) to five other people at the same time. 

I believe eMule allows the uploader to assign different priorities to 
different files - I'd like to be able to do this in Gnutella, to make 
the rarer (or better) content on my node easier to find, almost like a 
recommendation system.

Cheers,
Michael



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