Comments on: BitTorrent’s Future? Decentralized Search and Hosting

By: John Stroman

John Stroman — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:37:54 +0000

I think torrents and file sharing are here to stay. I’ve built a business around torrents. How can we ever go back to the days of video rentals? I don’t see it happening.

John Stroman,
http://www.cinematorrents.com

By: P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » The state of filesharing 2010: moving towards radical decentralization?

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:18:48 +0000

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By: Sweetie Magic-Bun

Sweetie Magic-Bun — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:45:18 +0000

TF wrote:

Although we believe that FrostWire’s approach is interesting, it will also introduce one major problem. It is relatively easy to make a P2P-powered torrent index, but keeping it clean and malware-free will prove to be very difficult.

Maybe I don’t quite fully understand how p2p works, but when I used the Vuze client (now use Transmission), I seem to recall it having a field for peer comments. Maybe Transmission has that too, but in any case, if each peer commented on the torrent’s validity, and it was invalid, it would likely disappear over a short time; and/or comment files could be part of the torrent files and edited accordingly.

By: ww

ww — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:05:23 +0000

@55: 56 is right, it’s good they added the disclaimer, it tells the users they should take that into account when considering information provided in the article, and its source.
Had the users discovered this fact only by themselves, TF would look like sponsors’ puppy, licking their feet, and doing (publishing) whatever they say with their opinions being easily buyable. However, this way, it explicitly tells us that we SHOULD take the fact into account.

Nevertheless, it is really interesting information, I like the decentralized index/torrent database approach, which, if implemented correctly, will surely be a pain in the ass of MAFIAA-like organizations and they will remain quiet… ’cause they won’t know, who should they be shutting down :P

At least for some time.

By: me

me — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:08:56 +0000

#97 sabret00the: “There’s nothing illegal about that.”

Beware of making such broad statements on the worldwide internet. In fact, in some countries, referencing alone IS already illegal, e.g. in Germany.

By: ArkOuroboros

ArkOuroboros — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:38:06 +0000

This is one of those times where I can say ed2k ftw.

By: forgot to tell ya

forgot to tell ya — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:06:49 +0000

.torrent file sharing? Oh the “news”… BitComet has been using this since v0.86 2007.04.03
http://wiki.bitcomet.com/Torrent_Share_and_Torrent_Archive

Downloading from both BitTorrent/DHT and eD2k/Kademlia? Available since v0.90 2007.06.19
http://wiki.bitcomet.com/Using_eMule_plugin

magnet links have been added recently as well. Now gimme easy Tor support (e.g. Azureus) and no other BT clients will match BitComet.

Sauce: http://www.bitcomet.com/doc/changelog.htm

What’s really interesting is recent efforts of adding BitTorrent support to Direct Connect clients (DC++ mods).

By: FrostWire “Iced Torrent” 4.18.6 Released « FrostWire

FrostWire “Iced Torrent” 4.18.6 Released « FrostWire — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:35:24 +0000

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By: killplay

killplay — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:03:26 +0000

why does torrent freak swear by this frostwire client so bad? Like a sponsor.
Gnutella is extinct in the mind of any self respecting torrent user

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:50:49 +0000

Go check out I2P if you don´t already know about it..

http://www.i2p2.de