computers/p2p software


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Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, gave a talk about BitTorrent's design at Stanford. He links to the video from his blog.

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Rather than renting DVDs to you, the Peerflix company facilitates trades among members. Brilliant.

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Easily cache large media files for free at bandwidth hotspots around the internet! Wow!

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Former ArsDigita business guy Brea traces the kernel of social networks and p2p sharing to an inauspicious but funny 1999 "killer app":

"I've got $2 million in venture capital," he said, "and I want to build the killer site for college kids who want to party."

Ah, those good old days…

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Seems like a really interesting app, but a pain to set up. Apparently a major part of the serverage is handled by a vanilla web server. I'll look into it later maybe.