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Originally Posted by Nautilus
So when you're connecting to the torrent tracker through your usual PC, are you in the cloud or in the internet?
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well the swarm is the cloud so the question is a little confusing.
When you first connect to the tracker, you are on the internet, but not in the cloud. The original handshake would be like knocking on the door kind of thing.
Once you are part of the swarm, reporting your pieces the cloud would be all the different machines you connect to, each machine would be a piece of that puzzle, each machine would be acting as a temporary and incomplete cache of the file you want.
It would be very public but it would not be a performance.
once you completed the file you could have a local private copy to play, but the hashing of the file, would still keep it a temporay and incomplet cahce of the file for everyone else (the nature of the pieces). For the purpose of the tracker (assuming private and involved tracker) it would see 1024 pieces stored on machine 102.143.32.5 but each individual machine would only see the pieces they requested. so if five machines were connect to you the five pieces would be seen by each machine respectively.
This weird mesh of virtual connections would be the cloud.
the cablevision equivalent would include your settop box, the internet, the private network, the satalites and cable networks owned by cable visions, and any local loops owned but virtually leased from "competitors".
the cable marketplace is very similar to the telco marketplace after deregulation. with local baby bells owning the local loop and other companies creating Virtual circuits for their customer across those own networks.