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Re:BitTorrent - It's not just about copyright any more by hadronzoo on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @02:22PM (#2679814)
RaptorQ codes, an efficient fountain code implementation, have a relative reception overhead of K+2 symbols with probability of 99.9999%. See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-raptorq-06

Unfortunately, they're patent encumbered.

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Re:BitTorrent - It's not just about copyright any more by kragen on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @04:33PM (#2680283)
Not here!
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