[ILUG] IOL Broadband handing over information.

[Liam Bedford]

Conor Daly wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:33:37PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
>Gareth Eason thought:
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>>Conor Daly wrote:
>>| On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:09:44AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
>>| Liam Bedford thought:
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>>|>They don't have to give any information to anyone for you to be caught
>>|>using p2p sharing systems. Any client in a bittorrent download is also
>>|>participating in uploading the file too (in general, you can turn off
>>|>the uploads, but then your download speed will die).
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>>| To clarify this, a bittorrent client is involved in the distribution
>>| _only_ of the file(s) it is involved in downloading so, to be seen
>>| uploading bits of StarWars (or whatever) the client must be downloading
>>| the same.  Is this a correct interpretation of BitTorrent?
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>>| Conor
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>>	No.
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>>	BitTorrent will download (as per expectation) and seed with anything 
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>>its cache. So if you previously downloaded $thing, it's likely that you
>>will be uploading bits of $thing while downloading $other_thing.
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>So, if I have downloaded FC2 isos 3 months ago and am now downloading
>Uuntu, somebody else downloading FC2 may get some of it from me?
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>>	You can, of course, seed material by telling your client to do so - 
>>	if you are the 'source' of the material.
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>So you, as a (hypothetical Ubuntu source) could seed the ubuntu.torrent with
>pointers to StarWars movie and have me end up downloading (and
>subsequently uploading) bits of Star Wars?
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>>So you need not necessarily have
>>downloaded it in the past to be uploading it now (if you see what I
>>mean) - though this generally requires deliberate action on your part.
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>Conor (confused)...
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This will all depend on the client. I use the btdownloadcurses, and AFAIK
it will only upload what I am currently downloading.

Other clients do other things.

L.