 jig
join:2001-01-05
Hacienda Heights, CA | it's a hobble anything that treats a section of peers deferentially negatively disrupts the efficiency of the swarm as a whole. if you make the assumption that the people running bityrant will stick around and upload just as much as they would had they been using the normal client tweaks, then you are probably making the wrong assumption. any white paper that doesn't take into account the psychology of the user properly (generally as selfish as possible) isn't an accurate accounting/prognosis.
it's the tragedy of the commons, if it's allowed to enter the swarms. my guess is that it'll get banned at the tracker, though to do it properly is going to take resources since the tracker can't rely on the name of the client (there will have to be some kind of analysis).
to me, this sounds more like a subtle poisoning of the swarms by the **aa.
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Asmodeus
join:2004-05-26
Spring Valley, CA | what you are saying is, is that if something is for free then in essence has little to no value and therefore the mechanism of sharing gets tied to something with a value and in this case it's a ratio... however, something like bittyrant only gives preference to those with the highest ratios within a given swarm size... the only side to that is if it takes advantage of DHT and then it could become a trackerless BT client and by then no one would care about leeching or seeding... |
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jig
join:2001-01-05
Hacienda Heights, CA | i don't think that's what i'm saying. i'm saying that once you look to make the swarm as efficient as possible, and consider seriously that each client wants in and out of the torrent as quickly as possible (you can't rely on some sense of sharing on the part of the client), you realize any shortcuts to get out quicker than a client's upload dictates is a detriment the the global efficiency.
basically, you are trunking off a segment of the bandwidth, and not necessarily giving back to the portions of the swarm that want it. of course it's less efficient.
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