China's Web 2.0 - A P2P 50 Times Faster Than Bit Torrent

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Thomas Crampton at Tech Crunch recently interviewed Ogilvy China’s Kaiser Kuo on the current state of web 2.0 in China. In the video below, Kuo describes af Chinese P2P file network Blin.cn, which he claims is 50 times faster than BitTorrent, a super browser, and a super media player which can play an format. The lack of regulation is producing amazing strides in technology.

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TorrentFreak does not buy the P2P claims:

"Yesterday, quite a few websites, such as TechCrunch, quoted Kaiser Kuo, who claims that Blin.cn is working on a P2P-technology that is allegedly 50 times faster than our beloved BitTorrent. Impossible of course, and we will show you why.

First of all, if Kaiser Kuo’s claim is right this would mean that on average, BitTorrent users would use less than 2% of their available bandwidth when downloading. This is an absurd claim, because most people know that it’s fairly easy to max out your connection, even on a private tracker.

It gets even more hilarious if we look at the download speed Kaiser Kuo is bragging about. He tells us that it downloads 2.2% of a DVD quality episode of the TV-series “24? in only 3 minutes. If we assume that he’s talking about the 700Mb DVD quality file, this means that he reached an average download speed of 88kB/s. I have no clue under what stone Kuo has been living, but 15.4Mb in 3 minutes is not going to impress many people."

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