Momcat opened this issue on Sep 04, 2005 ยท 34 posts
kawecki posted Tue, 06 September 2005 at 1:00 AM
Why we must look always at the negative parts, most of people of the Poser community don't look at P2P because they think that is evil, here you have a possible good use for P2P: I have done Poser animation with 100Mb size and I want to share it with the community. Where do I put 100Mb for downloading, I need to have a site. You know that anything that is for free people download so you can expect 1000 dowloads, this will give 100Gb of Bandwidth for your site, so the bandwidth will kill you. I have 1Gb per month in Renderosity's file locker, if I put such a file there within few hours my file locker is gone and I shall need to wait until the end of the month for the file locker will be accessable again. Here come the P2P solution, I host my video in my computer and I post, for example, the Bit Torrent definition of the movie. My computer will remain conected to the P2P network 24 hours per day and the P2P application will run in background, so I can use my computer normaly. Well, it is working and people start downloading from my computer, but my conection is only a simple DSL and is not fast, so 1000 person to download will take monthes! Here enter the miracle of P2Ps, the downloading is done by chunks, once some started to download from my computer, when another user start to download he will download from my computer and from the other user that started to download, when a third person enter he will have three sources to download, fouth person four sources and so on... Normaly it don't grow so fast because you put some limits to the number of users that download from you ( 3 or 4), so the multiplying factor of the tree will be three or four. The result is that within one or two days all 1000 users downloaded my movie. Interesting idea, isn't it? Well, I only need to make a movie and one day I shall do it.
Stupidity also evolves!