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Yes, a very interesting question. It'd be very expensive.

It occurs to me that BitTorrent technically solved the problem of high bandwidth costs long ago; millions of people transfer 1.1TB files around every day without worrying about bandwidth costs at all.

Can we come up with a similar system for jars? Why are we still relying on central servers for this at all?



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