Asmodeus
join:2004-05-26
Spring Valley, CA | reply to jig
Re: it's a hobble 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... |
 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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