Comments on: Meet SET p2p file sharing

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:43:55 +0000

“Many music files, for instance, may differ only in the artist-and-title headers, but are otherwise 99 percent similar.”
I think we’ve known this for years now.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:08:51 +0000

i disagree, it may be over estimated but i think it can acctually help. Think about searching for an mp3 file on a popular p2p network, you will often get meny results that are the same file size length and bitrate however due to differances in the id3 tags come up as different files.

The gain in practice is probably only going to be 10% or so but 10% is 10%…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:22:06 +0000

I think he’s grossly overestimated the similarity of files in the real world. This is a pipe dream; this is “how I would do it, if only there really was similarity between files”.