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russotto

join:2000-10-05
Collegeville, PA

reply to Matt
Re: Arrrr Matey

said by Matt See Profile :

It won't be long before the bittorrent client authors figure out how P4P is accomplishing this and enable the option themselves.
While Verizon's probably patented their method (everyone patents everything nowadays), it's not hard to count the hops to a destination, or look up the owner of the peer's netblock, or even guess based only on latency.
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patcat88

join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
said by russotto See Profile :

it's not hard to count the hops to a destination, or look up the owner of the peer's netblock, or even guess based only on latency.
Im sure thats patented. Automatic+look up+make determination of efficieny=patent
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