Louis Choquel

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Bigger is better: send files up to 2GB for free (Download Squad)

Aug 25th 2007 8:13AM Try Podmailing:
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Computer to TV ? .Shouldn't it be the Other Way ? (Blog Maverick)

Jan 20th 2007 2:33AM YouTube cannot deliver high quality videos yet. But peer-to-Peer delivery can.
This works especially well with "channels" like CBS or NBC which can be distributed as BitTorrent podcasts.
These P2P shows can be downloaded by a PC but also by a set-top-box. That is the future.

A Question about P2P Technologies (Blog Maverick)

Jan 12th 2007 5:12AM 1. You must know that all BitTorrent clients are compatible with each other so I guess you refer to the occasional news we hear about a BT client being biased to download more with less upload, and gets banned by some trackers or clients for doing so. This is what happens: unfair or otherwise malevolent BitTorrent clients get banned from the community of clients/trackers. This argument works against your point because I actually shows how this community is self-regulating efficiently.

The problem of running multiple BitTorrent clients on the same PC is real. The solution is to run BitTorrent as a kind of OS service, shared by all the applications that need to add torrent seeding or downloads to the queue.

2 & 3. As the other commenters I think upload bandwidth is not any issue for anyone. Except of course for the unlucky ones who are stuck with a capped connection. Of course for them P2P is not a solution. But I'm pretty sure these kinds of connections will disappear in the long run.

4. Bandwidth is essentially saved on the server's side, you're right about that. Even more importantly, LOAD (CPU, RAM...) is saved on the server side. That is a key point to understand what problem P2P solves that will still be relevant in the future.
Take for instance a time in the future when everyone is pulling HD content, say 15GB a movie, thanks to their 100Mbps fiber optics Internet access. How big a server do you need to serve millions of people pulling that kind of bandwidth? A very very big one, even considering the evolution of server powers, RAM, disk access and all,it would need to be a monster server farm.

I think, contrary to your idea, that it's not a problem if BitTorrent usage grows, and even triples, because the network capacities are growing too.

It all boils down to the evolution of technology, and Moore's law which is still relevant. But you have to understand that performance evolves thanks to progress in Networks, in Hardwares AND in Software. And P2P is the paradigm shift that we need to make the next generation Internet distribution happen.