Quote:
Originally Posted by Nautilus
Is it any good for us or did we just get an even bigger thorn in our ass?
Can someone please explain wtf is going on, I read the article but I'm clueless about most of the stuff mentioned in it. Magneto links wtf I have no idea, are they going to fuck us even harder now?
|
This is what it is
The magnet: URI scheme is a draft open standard defining a URI scheme for magnet links, which are mainly used to reference resources available for download via peer-to-peer networks. Such a link typically identifies a file not by location or name, but by content; more precisely, by the content's hash value.
Since it refers to a file based on content or metadata, rather than by location, a magnet link can be considered a kind of Uniform Resource Name, rather than the more common Uniform Resource Locators. Although it could be used for other applications, it is particularly useful in a peer-to-peer context, because it allows resources to be referenced without the need for a continuously available host.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_Link