After three years of research and development on a distributed storage system, Dominik Grolimund and his collaborators are ready to unveil the result: Wuala. Wuala is a new way of storing, sharing, and publishing files on the internet. Unlike traditional online storage systems, Wuala is decentralised and can harness idle resources of participating computers to build a large, secure, and reliable online storage. This enables its users to trade parts of their local storage for online storage and it allows us to provide a better service for free. In this Google Tech Talk, Grolimund explains what Wuala is and how it works; he also also show a demo of the application. Be warned though - it really is a tech talk 
… most of the maths and concept details went right over my head. Nevertheless: I think the video gives a good overall understanding, even for a non-geek like me 
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For some strange reason it seems to be difficult lately to sometimes play YouTube videos on this site; if you get an error message saying that “this video is no longer available”, click here to go directly to the YouTube website where - it is available. Very annoying bug …
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