20 Jan
2012
20 Jan
'12
8:01 p.m.
On 20 January 2012 19:37, Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote:
From what I understand about MegaUpload's approach, they created a hash of every file that they stored. If they'd already got a copy of the file that was to be uploaded they'd just put an appropriate link in a users space, saving them storage space, and bandwidth for both parties.
This sounds very similar to data deduplication eg http://www.netapp.com/uk/products/platform-os/dedupe.html