I don't like torrent for several reasons (but it wins for popular contents, because it focus the bandwidth only on few files, if i understood correctly), but the torrent package is better than emulecollection (imo).
For example i take a discography. On emule there are 2 options: do an archive or do an emulecolletion.
Major Drawbacks:
- with an archive i must download a lot of bytes for few songs (useless overhead?)
- with an emulecollection a releaser must publish the emulecollection file
AND all other files, with a consistent load on kad (i don't mind of the servers)
with a new emulecollection package like torrent, a releaser can share an entire directory with a single ed2k link, and a downloader can select which files emule must download. I know that, in this manner, many clients can share an incomplete file (if we consider the whole package), but imo there are more advantages than drawbacks.
This post has been edited by pier4r: 12 January 2011 - 09:22 AM