BitTorrent field study

Arnaud Legout studied the "rarest first" and the "choking" agorithms in a real-life setting. In total 12 torrents with a different number and ratio of seeders and leechers were studied.

Bram Cohen talks about BitTorrent

Check out his nerdy laugh. 1. Bram talking about himself and BitTorrent on 24×7.com. 2. Bram going into tech detail at Stanford. It’s almost a year old, but maybe some of you haven’t seen it yet.

Firefox torrents

Firefox 1.5 was released a few days ago. It keeps getting better and better. Save them some bandwith and download the .torrent over here. Read our post about BitTorrent and firefox.

Mongo56 just died.

BitTorrent's biggest tracker just went offline. The fun was over, there was no money left and the DDos attacks didn't help either.

New, unimproved BitTorrent search

Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen's popular BitTorrent protocol.