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I imagine if you were one of the MAJOR seeders for a legal torrent (Open Source software, CC content, etc.) you could easily hit that. If 1000 people download
by ZachPruckowski 15y ago
I imagine if you were one of the MAJOR seeders for a legal torrent (Open Source software, CC content, etc.) you could easily hit that. If 1000 people download a 5GB Linux distro from you, that's 5 TB.
Or if you're working with something like video or CAD and constantly sending slightly changed multi-GB files around each time.
- billybob 15y ago"Or if you're working with something like video or CAD and constantly sending slightly changed multi-GB files around each time" If you were using version control, couldn't you push just the diffs?
- chopsueyar 15y agoDoes it work the same for binaries as text?
- allenp 15y agoThere are definitely systems that will just send the bytes that have changed (and their locations naturally). DropBox does this: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631 http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631
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