Pushmipullyu nonprofit torrent design

By Jeff Trexler on September 22, 2007 9:45 PM | | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

Earlier this week we posted on the ethical complexity nonprofit web design. Here's another example.

On the one hand, Northwestern University takes a strong stance against illegal downloading--so strong, in fact, the University warns that "[t]hough peer-to-peer (P2P) software and similar programs are not illegal, they put your system and the NU Network at risk."

But if P2P is so dangerous, why are Northwestern University researchers developing new software to make torrents download faster? As their own University webpage reports,

The main goal of this plugin is simple -- to improve download speeds for your BitTorrent client. For most P2P applications, the decision regarding which peer to download from is generally arbitrary. When most peers offer good download performance, the random solution works well. However, if most peers are in a different part of the world from you, your downloads can really suffer.

The Ono plugin avoids this by proactively finding peers that are close to you (in a networking sense). These peers generally offer better response time, which can lead to significantly improved performance. We identify those peers that are near you by reusing network measurements from content distribution networks (CDNs), i.e. without performing extensive path measurement or probing.

Our Ono plugin, which seamlessly installs into the Azureus BitTorrent client, can be downloaded from >>>here<<<.

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Bart said:

Because of the beauty of this country research and administration model. Researchers do not have to restrict themselves to what the current administration think is 'ok' to do. Beyond this, the technology behind the plugin goes well beyond the plugin or BT itself.

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