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| Ad hoc is a Latin phrase which means "for this [purpose]." It generally signifies a solution that has been tailored to a specific purpose and is makeshift and non-general, such as a tailor-made suit... |
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Electronic Frontier Foundation |
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a non-profit advocacy and legal organization based in the United States with the stated purpose of being dedicated to preserving free speech rights such... |
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FairShare |
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| FairShare is an idea for a voluntary investment-based patronage system to replace intellectual property and copyright while still insuring that artists are fairly compensated... |
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Multisource File Transfer Protocol |
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| In computing, Multisource File Transfer Protocol (MFTP) is designed for the purpose of file sharing. It is still under development, and therefore may acquire more features... |
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Peer-to-Peer |
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| A peer-to-peer computer network is a network that relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively... |
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Multisource File Transfer Protocol
 In computing, Multisource File Transfer Protocol (MFTP) is designed for the purpose of file sharing. It is still under development, and therefore may acquire more features or other improvements in addition to those discussed in this article. This is the communication protocol used by such clients as eMule and eDonkey and, in its extended implementation, by the Overnet network.
Features/Strengths
In addition to being able to search by filename, MFTP is able to uniquely identify files based on their contents, regardless of how they are named on each individual computer. It also has bandwidth management (a.k.a. leech resistance) built into the protocol, and every known mature client allows the user to tweak file and user upload priorities. It is also possible to share metadata about a given file with links on Web sites (such as: this file is good, this file is corrupted, this file isn't what the name may indicate); in this case, the files are identified with their MD4 hash numbers (which are consistent) rather than their filenames (which will often vary from one computer to the next).
The protocol is still under development, so additional features and other improvements are still possible. There are several unique forks of the protocol: eDonkey2000 has implemented what it calls "hording" of sources, eMule uses a credit system, and xMule has extended the credit system to facilitate in the transfer of rare files.
Projects that Utilize MFTP
- aMule
- eDonkey2000
- eMule
- Overnet
- xMule
- Hydranode
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