Is BoxCloud P2P?
Yes and more. BoxCloud is really a peer to web application (p2web) that combines the best of the desktop (p2p) and the web. The problem with just P2P is that it requires both the sender and the recipient to be using the same software which is not always practical. You’d have to make everyone download some software just to be able to share files with them. Instead BoxCloud harnesses the ubiquity of the web and allows people to access your files using just a web browser. The files, of course, reside on your machine and are served up P2P style – reliable, secure and with swarming across multiple machines. BoxCloud essentially turns your desktop into sort of a private web server – You get to keep your files on your desktop where you work and make them accessible to your clients over a regular browser.
