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And limiting torrent speeds to 40k/s during "peak" hours. Which I kinda understand, but not when its unilaterally launched against the 3rd party providers leasi

And limiting torrent speeds to 40k/s during "peak" hours. Which I kinda understand, but not when its unilaterally launched against the 3rd party providers leasing the lines too! (I guess Bell Canada, which also sells TV services, lost too many customers over this policy to their unthrottled competitors) https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/small-isps-fight-ruling-that-let-bell-throttle-internet-speeds-1.798145 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/small-isps-fight-ruling-that... Canadian telecom regulators are gutless. Though I kinda liked it when my university throttled napster and torrents, because that meant my IRC downloads went very very fast!

liketochill 4y ago
In my memory Napster was before torrents? Did the idea for torrents, receiving pieces of the same file from multiple peers, come from Napster?
- lodovic 4y ago
  Napster was first, but it was called peer to peer (p2p) then. Bittorrent improved on it.
- Scoundreller 4y ago
  Doing some research, there was a very small period of overlap. The ability for Napster to resume was a much later feature. You had to find someone sharing the exact same filename, and I don't think they made it easy. I can't remember if they eventually allowed multi-source downloading. Independent Napster servers did continue to operate after the fall of Napster Inc as a service. https://boards.straightdope.com/t/napster-but-not-all-other-download-servers/54173 https://boards.straightdope.com/t/napster-but-not-all-other-... I recall using Napigator which provided a browse of official and independent napster servers and then modified your HOSTS file so your client would connect to the independent server instead of Napster Inc servers. https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2018-07-25-johnbackus-howdecentralizationevolves.html https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2018-07-25-johnbackus-...

liketochill 4y ago

In my memory Napster was before torrents? Did the idea for torrents, receiving pieces of the same file from multiple peers, come from Napster?

lodovic 4y ago
Napster was first, but it was called peer to peer (p2p) then. Bittorrent improved on it.
Scoundreller 4y ago
Doing some research, there was a very small period of overlap. The ability for Napster to resume was a much later feature. You had to find someone sharing the exact same filename, and I don't think they made it easy. I can't remember if they eventually allowed multi-source downloading. Independent Napster servers did continue to operate after the fall of Napster Inc as a service. https://boards.straightdope.com/t/napster-but-not-all-other-download-servers/54173 https://boards.straightdope.com/t/napster-but-not-all-other-... I recall using Napigator which provided a browse of official and independent napster servers and then modified your HOSTS file so your client would connect to the independent server instead of Napster Inc servers. https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2018-07-25-johnbackus-howdecentralizationevolves.html https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2018-07-25-johnbackus-...