[mythtv-users] Commercial releases of MythTV?

[steve at nexusuk.org]

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On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Örn Hansen wrote:

>   Not familiar with bittorrent, but anything that works and can't be directly 
> sabotaged by a third party.

Bittorrent is simply a way of distributing large files to a large number 
of people.  It is a peer to peer system - there is a bittorrent server for 
the file thats being served, people download the file in chunks from that 
server.  However, once a client has downloaded a chunk they make it 
available to be downloaded from themselves to other people, so when other 
clients request a chunk of the file from the server, the server will point 
them at someone who has already downloaded the file.  The end result is 
that generally, the more people you have downloading a file, the faster it 
goes since there are more sources.  It is ideal for downloading linux ISOs 
just after they have been released - the rush to get the ISO in the first 
few hours usually kills traditional file transfer methods such as FTP and 
HTTP.

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 - Steve                                             http://www.nexusuk.org/

     Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence

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