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Subject: [9fans] Venti by another name
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I came across this today

http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/

It's a P2P system where data blocks are traded not files.

A file becomes a set of blocks and if requested, anyone who has the
block can supply the data, even if they don't possess the same file.

In that way no-one is sharing copyrighted material in the large, just
coincedent blocks.

I've not pushed any mpeg data into venti, though I have idly wondered if
there are any disk saving.