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BitTorrent
A community portal about BitTorrent with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: BitTorrent is the name of a peer-to-peer file distribution protocol, and of a free software implementation of that protocol. The protocol was... [more]
A community portal about BitTorrent with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: BitTorrent is the name of a peer-to-peer file distribution protocol, and of a free software implementation of that protocol. The protocol was originally designed and created by programmer Bram Cohen, and is now maintained by BitTorrent, Inc.. BitTorrent is designed to distribute large amounts of data widely without incurring the corresponding consumption in costly server and bandwidth resources. CableLabs, the research organization of the North American cable industry, believes that BitTorrent represents 55% of the upstream traffic on the cable company's access network. CacheLogic puts that number at roughly 35% of all traffic on the Internet, although there are dissenting opinions on the methodology to measure P2P traffic on the Internet.
Probably not so popular without copyright torrents Popular BitTorrent site Mininova has been forced to delist virtually all its trackers, after a legal defeat by a Dutch rights holder organisation.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Already making a name for itself by offering new and innovative features, KickassTorrents is a relatively new BitTorrent site that launched just a few months ago. Recently the site quadrupled its traffic, largely thanks to its inclusion in the integrated search engine of the BitTorrent client, Vuze.
From feed.torrentfreak.com
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- Vuze 4.3.0.0 (feedburner.com)
Last week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker permanently, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX, and magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who were confronted with confusing new terminology and technology. Time for some explaining.
From digg.com
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- BitTorrent’s Future: DHT, PEX, and Magnet Links Explained (lifehacker.com)
- BitTorrent’s Future: DHT, PEX And Magnet Links Explained (lifehacker.com.au)
- openSUSE – minus BitTorrent DHT (p2pnet.net)
The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good: “
In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. It soon became one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, coordinating the downloads of more than 25 million peers at its height.
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From cyberlaw.org.uk
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- Files24, the IMDB-Styled BitTorrent Tracker Site (feedburner.com)
- Pirate Bay Retires the World’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker (privacydigest.com)
- The Pirate Bay Cuts BitTorrent Tracker (eweek.com)
torrentfreak.com: The Pirate Bay’s tracker closure has spurred several discussions about DHT, BitTorrent’s fallback technology for when central trackers are unavailable. According to some, DHT has some problems of its own. Novell, for example, decided to ship openSUSE with the BitTorrent client Transmission, but not before stripping DHT support.
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From tuxmachines.org
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- Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from openSUSE | TorrentFreak (blogsearch.google.com)
