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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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  • Infographic: Music, movie & book biz bigger than ever


    GigaOM — Authority Authority: 819
    Is piracy really destroying the entertainment industry? Techdirt blogger Mike Masnick doesn’t thin so, and he has some numbers to prove it. Masnick and his Floor64 colleague Michael Ho released a report titled “The Sky Is Rising” at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes Monday that shows how the global ...
    13 hours ago

  • Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent « Code as Craft [del.icio.us]


    Expanding horizons — Authority Authority: 111
    6 days ago

  • Piracy Involves Hypocrisy From Both Sides: Where Are The Solutions?


    THE MUSiC VOiD — Authority Authority: 106
    Whilst TMV wrote about the SOPA legislation last week we were barraged with comments from the Anti-SOPA camp – many of them rather anti-free speech if you consider the personal attacks and the rage associated with me presenting my opinion on the issue. Folks regardless of opinions from either side, free speech is a ...
    6 days ago

  • Music And Movie Fans...BitTorrent Is Coming Back!


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    Music and movie fans, rejoice! BitTorrent to your TV is coming soon. Some people may have heard about BitTorrent before, but they probably dont know much about it. Well, to give you an idea of what it is, BitTorrent allow consumers to "discover," play, share and move all types of high-quality personal media in the ...
    1 week ago

  • BitTorrent: Easily share files of any size


    BrotherSoft Editor's Blog — Authority Authority: 107
    When it comes to sharing files, there are a number of options available to you. If you want to share files with someone nearby, it may make sense to pop them on a USB drive and physically deliver them. For smaller files it is possible to make use of email, but things get trickier when [...]
    1 week ago

  • BitTorrents New P2P Protocol Could Fix the Internets Shoddy Streaming Video Quality [Streaming]


    Gizmodo — Authority Authority: 865
    Streaming video over the Internet is one of the most important telecommunication developments in the last decade. Problem is, doing so needs a massive system architecture to support it and the feed is often riddled with lag. A new protocol from BitTorrets founder is aiming to change all that. More »
    1 week ago

  • BitTorrent Introduces Share at CES 2012


    NetCast Studio Productions — Authority Authority: 119
    BitTorrent was original created to allow people to share large files over the Internet efficiently. In the last couple of years more and more people are sharing their digital media over the Internet with friends and family. Unfortunately because of the way things are currently setup they often have to compromise on ...
    1 week ago

  • BitTorrent Testing Peer-To-Peer Video Streaming


    WebProNews Feed — Authority Authority: 719
    BitTorrent changed the way we shared information. Now they’re changing the way we stream information. BitTorrent in association with Dean Guitars will be live streaming NAMM Jam this Friday night from 6:45 p.m. to midnight. The live stream will be …
    1 week ago

  • Historic: The Internet Protests Anti-Piracy Bills


    ShareConnector — Authority Authority: 130
    At TorrentFreak we’ve been covering copyright battles for more than half a decade. When a new anti-piracy bill emerges, wherever in the world, there has always been a push-back from civil rights groups and Internet users. Unfortunately, these protests are almost exclusively ignored by lawmakers. Could this pattern ...
    1 week ago

  • FrostWire for Android (Beta) Screenshots


    FrostWire — Authority Authority: 92
    FrostWire for Android is back , and currently under a rigorous beta testing period before we release it back into the Android Markets. As promised, FrostWire for Android is now open source . Android Hackers welcome for patch submissions.
    1 week ago

  • No deposition of account holder allowed until he is named as defendant in BitTorrent copyright case


    Internet Cases — Authority Authority: 449
    Hard Drive Productions, Inc. v. Doe , 2012 WL 90412 (E.D. Cal. July 11, 2012) In a mass copyright infringement suit, plaintiff served a subpoena on an internet service provider and got the identifying information for the account holder suspected of trading a copy of a movie via BitTorrent. The account holder was ...
    1 week ago

  • The Ongoing Legal Battle Over Bit Torrent Gets More Interesting


    Law of the Game — Authority Authority: 89
    Since the beginning of its existence, BitTorrent has been a lightning rod for controversy. Comcast choosing to slow down or “throttle” the service’s traffic was one of the first shots fired in the ongoing battle over Net Neutrality. This is not just a problem here in the States. Canadian provider Rogers ...
    1 week ago

  • Dutch ISPs Appeal the Court Order in The Pirate Bay Case


    P2P News! — Authority Authority: 114
    Last week we reported about two major Dutch ISPs, Ziggo and XS4ALL being ordered to block the access to the Pirate Bay website, following a complaint by anti-piracy organization BREIN. Now both cablers have decided to appeal the court order that forces it to prevent its customers from using the Pirate Bay. If the ...
    1 week ago

  • The Pirate Bay Weighs Anchor on Torrents


    P2P News! — Authority Authority: 114
    The most popular filesharing site ever will soon serve magnet links  only After years of providing torrents for a wide variety of categories – games, music, TV shows, applications etc – the Swedish-based torrent website – ThePirateBay - will completely stop from providing .torrents, and instead will only ...
    1 week ago

  • Après toi, pas de déluge


    Ask MetaFilter — Authority Authority: 647
    How can I limit bandwidth to Computer 1 when Computers 1 & 2 are connected to the internet? Port-forwarding, and BitTorrent. Two computers, one router, home network. Computer 1 (c1) is connected to the router by ethernet cable, Computer 2 (c2) always connects by wifi. If it matters, I cannot switch the ways they ...
    1 week ago

  • Govt censors secret anti-piracy meeting notes


    Renai LeMay — Authority Authority: 120
    news Citing the “public interest”, the Federal Attorney-General’s Department has censored from documents released under Freedom of Information laws eight pages of notes taken by one of its staff members at a secret industry meeting held in September last year to address the issue of Internet piracy, after ...
    1 week ago

  • What Is The Difference Between A Torrent File And A Magnet link


    Technize - Be Techdated — Authority Authority: 110
    If you frequently visit and use Bittorrent sites, you should have noticed that there are two types of downloads given for each torrent. One is a magnet link and other is a torrent file. Both of them are used in peer to peer networks but they are completely different from each other while satisfying the same purpose. ...
    2 weeks ago

  • The Pirate Bay Moves From Torrents To Magnet Links


    TechFruit — Authority Authority: 415
    The Pirate Bay has long been the bane of the entertainment industries as they have offered a huge collection of torrents of the latest music, television shows, movies and software for the best part of the last decade, but today they have moved to providing magnet links rather than torrents as the default link on the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent


    P2P News! — Authority Authority: 114
    TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most shared movies on BitTorrent for the week ended January 15. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise). Newcomer ‘Johnny English Reborn’ takes the lead this week, ‘War Horse’ ascends to #2 while ‘Real ...
    2 weeks ago

  • CD Projekt Red Calls off Legal Threats


    ModCool — Authority Authority: 146
    CD Projekt Red has called off its witch hunt for…. pirates , and in an open letter to the community is asking for forgiveness. Just in-case you missed the back story, CD Projekt Red is the development studio behind The Witcher 2, and about one month ago, set off on a campaign to hunt down everyone they suspected ...
    2 weeks ago

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