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Seems to be down. Their CDN (distil[0]), which bills itself as a "Bot mitigation" company, shows a CAPTCHA to the Wayback Machine archiver[1], effectively maki
by asymmetric 9y ago
Seems to be down. Their CDN (distil[0]), which bills itself as a "Bot mitigation" company, shows a CAPTCHA to the Wayback Machine archiver[1], effectively making it useless.
[0]: https://www.distilnetworks.com/ https://www.distilnetworks.com/
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180212161645/https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/06/01/the-long-slow-decline-of-bittorrent/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180212161645/https://www.plagi...
- Robotbeat 9y agoYeah, it's almost like they should use some sort of peer-to-peer distribution system to allow scalable distribution of their content...
- AckSyn 9y agoYou jest, but there's hardly a desire to run websites from bittorrent "seeders", and it severely limits the ability of an author to make changes or remove the content entirely.
- zingmars 9y agoReminded me of the Coral CDN [1] project. Shame it's dead now. [1] http://www.coralcdn.org/ http://www.coralcdn.org/
- pmarreck 9y agoWow, I had no idea this went away (although that would explain why I never see that style of link anymore)