On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:36:30PM -0500, Joe Greco wrote:
That's just the typical Bittorrent /client/, but the idea of using Bittorrent means the /protocol/. A special Bittorrent client could be written for ISPs with uploads disabled and Apple could also disable them on the update-downloading Bittorrent client for the phones.
The clients (be it Bittorrent or not) would still download the MD5 hash after the download finishes to verify the integrity of the download, and Apple would still be able to measure the amount of downloaded images.
So then all the networks that have done $things to BitTorrent to demote it to second-rate traffic will suddenly have a bunch of very angry Apple fans whose downloads are mysteriously having issues.
Sounds like a win to me. - Matt -- "Python is a rich scripting language offering a lot of the power of C++ while retaining the ease of use of VBscript." -- The PyWin32 documentation