[Mono-devel-list] Idea: Bittorrent and Mono.

[Chris Nuernberger]

Mike McKay wrote
>- Web servers should be able to offer any file type as a torrent. As 
>soon as the web server notices multiple downloaders for a file, then the 
>web server creates a torrent for it and becomes a seeder for that file. 
>Future requesters for that file then become peers and share the 
>bandwidth required to make the transfers happen. This would all be taken 
>care of by the web server and would happen with html files and well as 
>500 MB movie. Goodbye slashdot effect.

>- Web browsers should be able to download torrents seamlessly. A torrent 
>downloaded file will be treated like any other file - either displayed 
>as a web page in the browser or handled by an appropriate external program.

>Obviously some things need to be built for this to happen, but it would 
>be great if Mono could be leading the way.

That seems like a damn good idea to me.  It would require quite a bit of
pieces to work together.  If there was a full-featured mono browser (not
that I am suggesting making one) then you would be one step closer to some
of that.  Have you run this by the Firefox team?  The browser integration is
probably the toughest part, as a simple browser plugin won't do.  This is
probably getting off the topic of the list, but man, it makes a LOT of
sense.