[Noisebridge-discuss] Is there a good way to do incrementally updated torrents?

Sai noisebridge at saizai.com
Wed Dec 8 16:49:13 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:45 AM,
<travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org> wrote:
> I've wondered about alternative uses of bittorrent, such as for
> actually sharing web content itself.  Imagine that you could publish
> the entire contents of a web site over bittorrent, and that browsers
> could trigger BT downloads as you click on hyperlinks.  That way, you
> could publish a web site, but only have to provide the bandwidth once,
> in theory.

That seems to almost describe Freenet, except that it's a much more
paranoid protocol than BT. But morally, that's basically what it does.

- Sai



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