http://slashdot.org/articles/04/12/13/2028211.shtml?tid=95&tid=126
The implications of this on a site like IIchan, 4chan, Wakachan, etc are huge.
A little late in the game. See Coral:
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/download/
Another step towards turning WAKAchan into a communist revolution!
Coral won't play well with 4chan or IIchan. Trust me, it was looked at, and Coral is far too tiny to be able to handle the *chan sledgehammer.
Haw, when we looked at Coral, they'd just excitedly announced they'd transfered ONE TERABYTE. Which is what iichan transfered in half a month, and 4chan probably does in less than a week.
Biggest issue when trying to "offload" webpages.
What happens if someone post an illegal image, for instance, real live pedo? On a *chan board that doesnt get any sort of mirror backup, its just as simple as admin deleting the image, and the only people with it are those keeping a constant eye out and grabbing each file.
How does one delete it off a distrobuted network such as that?
One way would be to do it like most decent caches: send a request to the primary host for when the file was last changed.
Err, swarmstream has the same 'problem' that Coral does.
Using it doesn't give you some magical infrastructure. People have to be willing to run local instances that collaborate in either case.
When I mentioned coral, I didn't mean that you should use NYUs coral cache. Rather that anyone can deploy the tool and get similar features that swarmstream provides.
So it's essentially share/freenet for World Wide Web?