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a company that is a repository (cache) of the most popular torrents out there. think of this as akamai for torrentz

I thought of this idea when I was...

reading an article on how almost all the major ISP's are throttling torrents. ISP's have a big problem on their hands are more and more people get on the torrent bandwagon. They have resorted to throttling the torrent traffic (reshaping traffic as they deem fit). However this will only force the users to encrypt the traffic and thus cloak the traffic as such. When you come up with a company that would cache the torrents. This will sit as a middle man between the ISP and the end user. Any p2p traffic will thus be redirected using this caching service. The most popular torrent traffic will be indexed and categorized. Servers with massive storage will be set up in every city and locale. The caching company will ensure that the data is replicated throughout to make the torrent repository consistent. And thus the P2P traffic would not have to travel from distant places and users will be able to access it from their locale. end result. Less bandwidth usage for the ISP!


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jboggs
jboggs Posted: December 30, 2006, 11:47 pm

Is there a risk of lawsuits over the content?

generic_idea_machine
generic_idea_machine Posted: December 31, 2006, 9:07 pm

re:

with the ways the laws have shaped...yes...this might prompt a lawsuit if and only if "illegal content is hosted off these servers"

However this venture can act effectively as a middle man between ISP's and recording /media companies.

There is a shift taking place with major studios and media companies promoting their stuff on P2P networks.
As more and people move from the conventional tube to online content, it is only a matter of time before more people hop onto the P2P bandwagon.

I can see the trends/laws reversings and companies actually making their content available for free on the P2P networks, based on the two reasons I stated above.

http://www.bit-tech....21/BBC_goes_torrent/
http://www.theinquir...t.aspx?article=36104

Clint_Morse
Clint_Morse Posted: January 24, 2007, 11:41 am

Unless you work this out with the copyright holders first, this is illegal. The laws are not going to change. If you induce someone to violate copyright it is as if you did it yourself.

generic_idea_machine
generic_idea_machine Posted: January 24, 2007, 5:59 pm

Again,

I'd like to stress the fact that this is ONLY Illegal, if copyrighted stuff is hosted off these servers without consent.

Exhibit:
Consider the case of BBC, which has teamed up with bit-torrent client Azureus to make their television shows available worldwide.

As more and more people move away from conventional tube and spend more time on their machine/mobile gadgets. ---> This will invariably force the BIG media giants to put more content up for grabs on the net. (This is already happening).

So you see, this process is in it's infancy. Eventually more and more media companies will be jumping on the P2P bandwagon.

And when they do, ISP will have a problem on their hands.

Hence the startup I suggested, will come into effect and
-i- help in disemanating the content
-ii- serve as LOCAL repositories, so user does not have to traverse the global net links to get one torrent file.
-iii- help ease the bottlenecks

generic_idea_machine
generic_idea_machine Posted: January 27, 2007, 10:51 pm

just discussed this idea with someone I know
and they pointed out right away, that this negates the whole concept of "p2p" =

 

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