Monday, October 07, 2013

[hwaykhko] P2P distributed version control

Can peer-to-peer file sharing and distributed version control be combined in some interesting way?

Low hanging fruit:
* Robustness if a parent repository goes down or has poor bandwidth.
* Entirety of the repository is spread out among many children; no one needs to check out the whole thing.
* (But I believe far more clever things can be done.)

Are these technologies being thwarted by the chilling effect of MGM v Grokster and Arista v Lime? (Copyright infringement)

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