I was right! It won’t!

The only interesting feature of UDP I’d care about is that UDP hole punching makes it possible to connect two peers behind routers (often mislabeled as “firewalls”) by help of a common third peer. This requires no relaying. LimeWire does it and it sure helps. It’s one of the Gnutella features that still puts most other P2P protocols to shame because those support at best inefficient relaying.

For this reason alone, TCP over UDP would be an excellent idea because it’s well-known and well-understood. At least it’s much better than inventing your own TCP-like protocol unless you know exactly what you’re doing. No sorry, BitTorrent isn’t anywhere near as complex as to be an automatic qualification.

The internet wasn’t designed to survive a nuclear war. That’s urban legendary bullshit. It was designed to support alternative routes for redundancy and reliability. Nothing more, nothing less. In reality most routes are anything but redundant nowadays.

Most of the commenters here should do themselves a favour, drink a warm cup of STFU and read upon TCP/IP before they even dare to open their uneducated mouths in this context. Really, the level of retardedness in most comments here isn’t funny anymore.

(i) I get full-throttle NNTP access completely ‘free’ from my ISP, just for being a customer (how kind of them).
(ii) You’re (probably) on a pay-to-leech private tracker.
Ergo, (iii) Who’s the one violating the ‘sharing is caring’ ethic then whining about piracy here (TINH)?

*COUGH* What Am I saying?!?1! Forget that, definitley_don’t_ Google NNTP/Usenet/News Servers. There’s “NO SUCH THING”(TM)

Stick to torrents – they’re way cooler.

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