teledyn 𓂀Once upon a time, long ago, in Toronto, there was this clan of ardent opensource freeks on a VC-backed quest to subvert the gatekeepers of recorded music...
#history #distributedchoice #p2p #whenwewasfab #filesharing #Swarmcast
@sarahsapphire I think #peertube is using something like bittorrent for video (and streaming), but does their method use Forward Error Correction like we did with #OpenCOLA? I believe #FEC can also apply to streaming, but it's been decades since I used it in #Swarmcast
#distributedfiletransfer
https://freespeech.fandom.com/wiki/Swarmcast
Swarmcast
Swarmcast was the first peer-to-peer (P2P) content delivery system and the originator of the term "Swarming Downloads."Template:Fact The program was invented and developed in 1999 by Justin Chapweske (of OnionNetworks fame) and sold to Opencola, which released the software under a GPL license. The program first breaks a file into multiple little packets, distributing those packets to computers that have downloaded the file, and randomly requesting those packets from whoever has them. The result