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Re:How we built a P2P file sharing network from scratch by joombaga on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:42AM (#20634138)
Is there a problem with their definitions?
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Re:How we built a P2P file sharing network from scratch by kingludite on Sunday August 11, 2019 @06:14PM (#20670880)
The text fails to explain the difference between the 3 types of networks. Centralized, decentralized and distributed.

> "BitTorrent, Gnutella, Freenet: Decentralized"

> "In a decentralized system like BitTorrent, every computer/node acts as a client and server"

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