arstechnica.com— Computer researchers report dramatic accelerations in P2P file sharing using a protocol that hunts down similar files and grabs the pieces that are identical.
Apr 10, 2007View in Crawl 4
I am not sure if I am understanding this correctly, but don't it mean it'll scan your comp for files? To me, an exclaimation mark shoots up in my head concerning privacy. Of course, I am assuming you can designate a folder or something to scan, but still, it opens up the possibility of being exploited. Not that we don't have enough of that already.
Jason17439, I think you're correct.But I don't think you'd need to create a second file necessarily, because the program looks for identical chunks in other files you _could_ (if you put on your hypothetical hat) download an copyrighted file but never actually copy it's data, just identical data from non copyrighted sources.If this ever becomes software the RIAA (and similar) are going to go nuts!It all comes down to the "everything is made of 1's and 0's" discussion :)
I'm just glad there is "a research team with members at Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, and Intel" that will help me download Nintendo ROMs and industrial music faster.
mercedrocksApr 11, 2007
This is a dupe of the "helpful explanation" :)
zerosycApr 11, 2007
I am not sure if I am understanding this correctly, but don't it mean it'll scan your comp for files? To me, an exclaimation mark shoots up in my head concerning privacy. Of course, I am assuming you can designate a folder or something to scan, but still, it opens up the possibility of being exploited. Not that we don't have enough of that already.
bluemonkiApr 12, 2007
Jason17439, I think you're correct.But I don't think you'd need to create a second file necessarily, because the program looks for identical chunks in other files you _could_ (if you put on your hypothetical hat) download an copyrighted file but never actually copy it's data, just identical data from non copyrighted sources.If this ever becomes software the RIAA (and similar) are going to go nuts!It all comes down to the "everything is made of 1's and 0's" discussion :)
jas168Apr 21, 2007
I'm just glad there is "a research team with members at Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, and Intel" that will help me download Nintendo ROMs and industrial music faster.