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p2pnet news view P2P:- Earlier today I ran an item on the latest effort by France’s Vivendi Universal, the biggest member of the Big 4 Organised Music gang, to scam online music lovers into listening to formulaic, cookie-cutter ‘product’.

There are other, far less painful, ways.

As I suggest in Music Fan Manifesto: 2010, for the moment there’s no such thing as a viable online corporate music market. And that means artist music lovers are forced to get their fixes elsewhere.

As things are it’s lose-lose all the way not only for the Big 4, but for Hollywood, because the people they’re trying to dominate are a lot smarter than they are. And while they try to crush anything and everything that looks even remotely like competition, they’re missing out on all the good stuff and good people who’d help them to become the powers they want to be in the 21st digital century.

With that as background, I had an interesting email from Pablo in Switzerland.

He’s 15 and he was telling me about a project he’s been working on for months — an algorithm to “index web pages like  Google’s”.

It was very basic,  he said, going on >>>

… just grabbing pages, indexing them and searching through, with the number of occurrence of the keywords as the only sorting method. A few months later, I had finished a more complex algorithm, with a sort of PageRank and so on. But it still wasn’t as good as Google.

So I had the idea to use this technology for projects and maybe build a company on it.

And that’s what I’ve started with TorrentFactory.org.

Under “download music, movies, apps and more” he explains on the site >>>

TorrentFactory.org isn’t a regular torrent website like a lot of new online torrent sites. I indeed use a crawler but I’m not simply indexing torrents from popular site or what ever, I have developed a complete engine that crawl the entire Internet, exactly like how Google and other large search engine do.

Once pages are stored on large capacity hard drives (I currently have 10 TB on local network storage), my home servers split the datas between the content pages and the torrent files – and that’s a huge jobs, it takes a lot of time and ressources because it also test the torrent content, see if there are fakes etc. When there are enough informations to save the torrent (a title related to the torrent filename, a category, maybe a description etc.), the torrent is then transfered to another server where the trackers are tested, if all trackers are dead, the torrent will not be added, this server test each torrents 3 times per day during 4 days and upload it to the production environement, the final servers.

Six servers at home

TorrentFactory sucked up 1,025 hours of labour  (”I know the exact time because we had a party 2 days back for the 1,000th hour”), and the basic search engine takes almost 1,000,000 of lines of code.

But before the cartels get all hot and bothered, TorrentFactory is a means to another end, Pablo told me, also stressing he’s not making any money out of it.

“Distributing torrents isn’t my main purpose,” he says. “I’ll keep improving the engine and serve other kind of data like pictures, videos, links or whatever — maybe an archive service — but I haven’t got that far yet.”

At the moment he has six servers at home “running to download and split the content, and two web servers,” he says.

Does it work? It did for me. Lightning fast.

And sponsored by DediServ.eu, it’s totally ad-free.

Pablo says he started out three or four years ago with a programing teacher who’s the local development director of a famous Canadian firm.

He’s currently working on his algorithm to improve the crawling rate, and preparing new projects.

Excellent, Pablo. And when you get to where I know you’re going, don’t become another Google.

Jon Newton – p2pnet

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cookie-cutter ‘product’ – UMG, FreeAllMusic, sucker play, January 12, 2010
get their fixes elsewhere – Music Fan Manifesto: 2010, , January 10, 2010

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