Fwd: Re: Distributed downloading

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Hi David,

Am Freitag, 3. August 2012, 21:11:28 schrieben Sie:
> When I was teaching some of my colleagues about DVCS one of them asked if
> it could be possible to download from different sources at the same time
> (since I made the somewhat innacurate analogy of DVCS being to CVCS what
> FTP is to BitTorrent).
> 
> I've thought about it for a while and I think it is actually a good idea.
> 
> Do you think this is remotely possible?, what about something in alignment
> with the philosophy/community?, I think partial downloads would be a
> requirement for this —which probably is a completely separate
> implementation/feature— but I think this would be something interesting to
> discuss.

The Infocalypse Extension allows sharing repositories decentrally over Freenet 
without the need of a central server (or any kind of central control aside of 
public-key cryptography inherent in Freenet):

- http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Infocalypse


With it you can just do 

	hg clone repo freenet://USK@/myrepo


(if you use my enhanced version


That gives you really decentral, censorship resistant source code management 
without dependence on any central resource.


Best wishes,
Arne Bab

PS: Forgot to forward this to the list… sorry…
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A man in the streets faces a knife.
Two policemen are there it once. They raise a sign:

    “Illegal Scene! Noone may watch this!”

The man gets robbed and stabbed and bleeds to death.
The police had to hold the sign.

…Welcome to Europe, citizen. Censorship is beautiful.

   ( http://draketo.de/stichwort/censorship )
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