BitTorrent

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol original designed by Bram Cohen in April 2001. Those who share files using BitTorrent can choose one of many clients and seed the file which is distributed in small parts. Any user with a BitTorrent client can locate a torrent file and choose to download the file. As they finish downloading parts they in turn share those parts with others in a distributed fashion.

BitTorrent receives a great deal of negative press as it is commonly associated with the illegal uploading and downloading of copyrighted material. This has resulted in Internet Service Providers using traffic shaping to slow down BitTorrent traffic.

While there is a great deal of illicit BitTorrent use, BitTorrent is also a preferred method for legitimately distributing large files. Development communities like Fedora, studios like Paramount and Fox as well as publishers like Electronic Arts use the BitTorrent protocol.  The distributed nature of the protocol eases network load of the main seeder and opens the door to more robust file sharing/distribution.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “BitTorrent”

• Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies via BitTorrent

  
  P2P News! — Authority: 433
  Zombieland - the most downloaded film this week TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent for the week ended November 8th. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise). ‘Zombieland’ has made a comeback on the chart, ...
  7 hours ago

• TaffyBox: Search Tool for Legal Torrents

  
  Orangeinks — Authority: 127
  Torrent is one of the best things that ever happened to file sharing. The only problem is that with all the issues surrounding torrent sites nowadays, most people think that torrent itself is illegal. Torrent is not illegal in itself. The technology is completely legal and a very effective way of sharing files. What ...
  10 hours ago

• TopBytes, DigitalHive, LastTorrents & TopHos - Open for Signup

  
  FileShareFreak — Authority: 121
  4 trackers; 57,787 torrents. As luck would have it, all four of these great private trackers are open for signup at the same time. TopHos, normally closed to public signups isn’t just a tracker, it’s a community! TopBytes recently did some major housecleaning and re-opened registration today. DigitalHive is often ...
  13 hours ago

• TaffyBox – ค้นหาง่ายๆ ดาวน์โหลดสบายๆ

  
  108BLOG — Authority: 118
  TaffyBox เครื่องมือสำหรับคอ BitTorrent ใช้สำหรับค้นหาและดาวน์โหลดไฟล์ BitTorrent ดาวน์โหลดได้ทันที ...
  23 hours ago

• Developer puts own game on BitTorrent

  
  DigitalBattle.com — Authority: 589
  PC piracy is at an all time high, some estimate that over 90% of games played on the PCs aren’t actually bought, but downloaded and cracked. Developer RedLynx, of course, isn’t really happy to hear that kind of news, and they have now resorted to a rather new strategy: they uploaded their own game before the ...
  1 day ago

• Vizz.tv Exposed - A Review of the $24 TV Tracker

  
  FileShareFreak — Authority: 121
  Here’s one tracker you won’t be finding invitations floating around for, and that’s Vizz.tv. As many already know, this new TV tracker only offers membership through a $24 yearly fee. As luck would have it, we were fortunate enough to find a subscriber who granted us unconditional access. Presenting the Net’s ...
  5 days ago

• Ignorance or Duplicity: P2P Labeled “the bane of Hollywood” on TV Program

  
  P2P News! — Authority: 433
  In my personal top most annoying things lately, I would have to include people who talk about p2p, BitTorrent and illegal file sharing without having a single clue about any of these. What annoys me, in fact, is this ‘talking being done on TV shows by biased, opinion-forming TV hosts who don’t even do their ...
  6 days ago

• µTorrent 2.0 Build 17127

  
  Engineering Where Your EyE See — Authority: 152
  µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients. download µTorrent 2.0 Build 17127 Similar Posts: µTorrent 2.0 ...
  6 days ago

• Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies via BitTorrent

  
  P2P News! — Authority: 433
  ‘Paranormal Activity’ - the most pirated film on BitTorrent second week in a row TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent for the week ended November 1st. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise). Last week’s ...
  1 week ago

• How To Spoof BitTorrent Upload

  
  The Positive Side — Authority: 122
  All private torrent trackers require account registration which mostly needs an hard-to-get invitation to join the system, even if you are lucky enough to get an membership you are required to maintain a minimum upload-to-download ratio also known as share ratio which is usually 1:1 meaning that if you download a 100 ...
  1 week ago

• KickassTorrents - A Fast-Growing Torrent Indexer

  
  FileShareFreak — Authority: 121
  Rarely do we come across a public torrent site that’s worth writing extensively about. Most torrent indexers are little more than carbon copies of each other with few, if any, discernible features that make them stand out from the rest. You know the sites we’re talking about - AliveTorrents, ExtraTorrent, BTMon, ...
  1 week ago

• A Copyright Counterintuition, A Thorny Privacy Ruling, and More

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 132
  A counter-intuitive case about copyright Mike Masnick at Techdirt comments on story about which he had previously been reluctant to talk because the role and interpretation of copyright seems counter to what many might feel is intuitively right. I tend to agree with Masnick’s interpretation, which is based on an ...
  1 week ago

• Vid-Biz: Comcast, uTorrent 2.0, Simpsons

  
  NewTeeVee — Authority: 702
  Comcast/NBCU Announcement This Week? Two sides have reportedly reached a tentative deal wherein the cable company would own 51 percent of NBC Universal. ( The New York Times ) uTorrent 2.0 to Be a Network Friendly BitTorrent Protocol; will eliminate the need for ISPs to throttle BitTorrent traffic because the ...
  1 week ago

• µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Dont Have To...What? [Bit Torrent]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  This is weird: the next version of µTorrent, currently in beta, uses an updated version of the BitTorrent protocol that decreases your speed (usually uploads) when it detects network congestion. Will it slow downloads? Not necessarily…apparently. "uTP measures the time a packet takes to get sent from peer A to ...
  1 week ago

• µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Don’t Have To…What? [Bit Torrent]

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 462
  This is weird: the next version of µTorrent , currently in beta, uses an updated version of the BitTorrent protocol that decreases your speed (usually uploads) when it detects network congestion. Will it slow downloads? Not necessarily…apparently. “uTP measures the time a packet takes to get sent from peer A ...
  1 week ago

• BitTorrent Makes P2P Throttling by ISPs Unnecessary

  
  P2P News! — Authority: 433
  The new uTorrent 2.0 is using a new BitTorrent protocol designed to make it aware of network clogging BitTorrent has irreversibly changed the way we perceive the sharing or distribution of digital content. Most of the p2p applications out there have behind them the BitTorrent technology whose benefits some in ...
  1 week ago

• In Soviet uTorrent, bandwidth throttles you!

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 800
  Apologies for the headline, but it was too appropriate to resist. It seems that there is a feature of uTorrent 2.0 now in beta that automatically detects network congestion and self-limits bandwidth to lessen it . This might provide some much-needed relief to ISPs that feel a disproportionate amount of traffic is ...
  1 week ago

• Top Sites That Every BitTorrent User Should Know About

  
  Rocking Team — Authority: 129
  The last few years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of BitTorrent users and the content that is available via BitTorrent. Nowadays it is no big deal if you can find a TV Show on BitTorrent before it has premiered on TV. The number of sites indexing and searching BitTorrent files have kept pace with this ...
  1 week ago

• In Soviet uTorrent, bandwidth throttles you!

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 462
  Apologies for the headline, but it was too appropriate to resist. It seems that there is a feature of uTorrent 2.0 now in beta that automatically detects network congestion and self-limits bandwidth to lessen it . This might provide some much-needed relief to ISPs that feel a disproportionate amount of traffic is ...
  1 week ago

• uTorrent 2.0: Cure for ISP Throttling

  
  Technology Bites — Authority: 127
  uTorrent is a popular client for downloading files using P2P networks. uTorrent is developed by BitTorrent Inc. There is much debate over throttling of P2P traffic by ISPs arguing the traffic is causing congestion on the network, users argue for net neutrality rules. uTorrent developers have some sort of solution for ...
  1 week ago

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