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”

• TorrentFetcher Searches for Torrents from Your Desktop [Downloads]

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 820
  Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of your choice. Torrent sites offer a lot of information about the ...
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• TorrentFetcher Makes Your Torrents Search Easier !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 441
  If you want to make your Torrents search a little bit easier, just go with TorrentFetcher that is a handy utility program. It contains both torrents search engine and the results lists. You can enter a search phrase and start the search for torrents right away. Moreover, you can configure advanced options like the ...
  12 hours ago

• Desktop Torrents Search Engine Torrent Fetcher

  
  Telephone Issues — Authority: 166
  Users looking for torrents usually go to a website like Mininova or The Piratebay that index torrents. An alternative to this is a desktop torrents search engine like Torrent Fetcher is available for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Torrent Fetcher comes with a comfortable interface to perform the search for ...
  13 hours ago

• Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here’s How.

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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  15 hours ago

• BitTorrent After The Pirate Bay: Do You Still Need Trackers?

  
  P2P Blog — Authority: 419
  The Pirate Bay made headlines earlier this week with yet another dramatic announcement, this time that the notorious BitTorrent site’s tracker has been officially shut down. But the move won’t impact downloading, site admins explained on a blog. Trackers are no longer needed to facilitate BitTorrent transfers, the ...
  16 hours ago

• Get Google Chrome OS, Now [Chrome Os]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 898
  Wow, that was fast. Google Chrome OS was only unveiled today, and its already compiled as a VMWare image, ready for download via torrents and gdgt. Techcrunch also has a tutorial for setting it up....
  18 hours ago

• BitTorrent After The Pirate Bay: Do You Still Need Trackers?

  
  NewTeeVee — Authority: 724
  The Pirate Bay made headlines earlier this week with yet another dramatic announcement, this time that the notorious BitTorrent site’s tracker has been officially shut down. But the move won’t impact downloading, site admins explained on a blog . Trackers are no longer needed to facilitate BitTorrent transfers, ...
  19 hours ago

• Google Chrome OS Pops Up on Bittorrent, Compiled and Ready [Chrome Os]

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 464
  Wow, that was fast. Google Chrome OS was only unveiled today, and it’s already compiled as a VMWare image, ready for downloading on our preferred Swedish swashbuckling site. Check it out, and let us know how it works! [ Pirate Bay ]
  19 hours ago

• Hollywood Takes OpenBitTorrent’s ISP to Court

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  The Swedish hosting provider Portlane is being sued by several Hollywood movie studios for hosting the standalone BitTorrent tracker, OpenBitTorrent. The movie studios are claiming that OpenBitTorrent is a re-branded copy of The Pirate Bay tracker that shut down yesterday.
  1 day ago

• It’s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  Did The Pirate Bay really shutter its tracker, as claimed on Tuesday? The Motion Picture Association doesn’t think so. Hollywood’s overseas lobbying organization claims OpenBitTorrent, billed as an independent “open tracker project,” was actually established by one of The Pirate Bay’s founders. View ...
  2 days ago

• It’s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 770
  Did The Pirate Bay really shutter its tracker, as claimed on Tuesday? The Motion Picture Association doesn’t think so. Hollywood’s overseas lobbying organization claims OpenBitTorrent, billed as an independent “open tracker project,” was actually established by one of The Pirate Bay’s founders. ...
  2 days ago

• The Pirate Bay Tracker Closes Its Doors as DHT Takes Over

  
  P2P News! — Authority: 433
  TPBs new logo suggesting magnetic links are the future in downloading files After six years of turbulent existence, time in which P2P and file sharing have become everyday words, the Pirate Bay crew shuts down the site’s BitTorrent tracker permanently as they hail the beginning of a new era where a distributed, ...
  2 days ago

• The Pirate Bay Tracker Closes Its Doors as DHT Takes Over

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  TPBs new logo suggesting magnetic links are the future in downloading files After six years of turbulent existence, time in which P2P and file sharing have become everyday words, the Pirate Bay crew shuts down the site’s BitTorrent tracker permanently as they hail the beginning of a new era where a distributed, ...
  2 days ago

• Pirate Bay Tracker Offline for Good – Though the site will continue pushing files via DHT+PEX

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 435
  The Pirate Bay crew had already essentially been disbanded, the site dissected, and its remnants sold to a somewhat dubious company that simply wants to turn the site’s visitors into little P2P cash cows . So an announcement today over at the official Pirate Bay blog that they’re officially shutting down the ...
  2 days ago

• TPB Tracker Down for Good

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 154
  After more than six years, the minds behind The Pirate Bay have abandoned the BitTorrent tracker, switching to a de-centralized peer to peer network called DHT that all modern torrent clients join by default, even if they aren’t downloading any torrents. TorrentFreak has the report . You can also read more ...
  2 days ago

• Trackon, The BitTorrent Tracker Tracker | TorrentFreak

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  If you have ever used a public or open tracker, you know that reliability often comes with a half-hearted smile – trackers can go offline and return again, often without explanation or warning. To help keep track of the status of public trackers, there’s now Trackon, the BitTorrent Tracker Tracker.
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• Will Pirates Sink the Pirate Boat that Rocked?

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  Despite a great deal of evidence to the contrary, the MPAA and its allies in the content industries constantly declare that it is, “impossible to compete with free.”  As recently as this September, Frederick Huntsberry, the Chief Operating Officer of Paramount Pictures declared before an FCC hearing that, ...
  2 days ago

• The Pirate Bay kills its tracker, tries to usher in the DHT age

  
  CrunchGear — Authority: 795
  Pretty big news to share with y’all today: The Pirate Bay is no more . Well, “no more” in the sense that the site’s admins have decided to kill the tracker once and for all. The site will continue to serve the BitTorrent community, but will instead rely upon trackerless technology, such as DHT and PEX . ...
  3 days ago

• Trackon, The BitTorrent Tracker Tracker

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Public torrent have their critics, who mostly comment that they’re slow, unverified or unreliable. Only the latter is down to the tracker itself – the others are down to peers and sites. read more
  3 days ago

• Trackon, The BitTorrent Tracker Tracker

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  Public torrent have their critics, who mostly comment that they’re slow, unverified or unreliable. Only the latter is down to the tracker itself – the others are down to peers and sites. Often public or open trackers are heavily loaded and operated on a shoestring budget, either as an ancillary project or out of ...
  3 days ago

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