Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Dijjer... a better BitTorrent?

From Digg - an introduction to a new open source, GPL peer-to-peer framework called Dijjer. Built by some of the folks who run reverr.com, Dijjer attempts to address some of the shortcomings of BitTorrent:

Dijjer claims that it can defeat most NAT issues, probably through use of the STUN protocol. And it encapsulates a lightweight HTTP server, so access to a client can be performed directly in a web browser. And when you parcel out a URL, you can do so using a Gnutella-like URL such as http://dijjer.org/get/http://someisp.com/youraccount/mymovie.mov.


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