230587 - Bittorent Integration

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 203571

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Hihn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

I got a 'Too Many Anonymous Users' message from a FTP link the other day, and I
got to thinking. We should be able to integrate BitTorrent into Mozilla. The
notable problem is the tracker part - maybe this can eb provided for free, or as
a pay service? But anyhow, for downloads of > 1MB or so, we should be able to
check the tracker and rather than use HTTP or FTP, go to BitTorrent. Since
Mozilla is primarily a geek thing, I think we'd have a lot of common files being
transferred.  -- Note: this should also alleiviate the slashdot effect on binary
media (which aside from the users, is the biggest component to the /. effect) --
But geeks by far consume the most binary data, I'd think: Linux ISOs -of which
there are millions of downloaders and only a few severs.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203571 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

-> file handling