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mmahemoff
on Dec 31, 2011
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Download Entire Wikipedia for Offline Use With an ...
WebRTC means peer-to-peer is probably coming to Chrome and Firefox soon, which will allow an app like this to transfer Wikipedia in all its 7.3GB (compressed) glory without harm to anyone's servers.
http://www.webrtc.org/faq#TOC-What-other-components-are-incl...
seanp2k2
on Dec 31, 2011
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I'd be worried about security and data authenticity with tech like that.
antimatter15
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You could just compute data checksums of the stuff you get from peers, a la BitTorrent.
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