Comments on: P2P Researchers Fear BitTorrent Meltdown

By: Hank

Hank — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:16:01 +0000

P2P researchers? My @$$. Those guys in Delft eat up millions of subsidies but they can’t even prove that P2P is a more efficient technology than http downloading or streaming is.

By the way it isn’t. P2P is a horror for ISP’s. The UK ISP’s shut down the BBC iPlayer. BBC wanted to save £3 million by switching to P2P and that switch cost the UK ISP’s almost £1 billion for extra network costs. So they are back to old school streaming.

P2P is 99.9999 used for illegal file sharing which is just plain wrong. P2P users drive up the costs for broadband: the P2P users’ broadband links are sponsored by non-P2P users.

P4P solves just a small part of the problem. Yes it sucks.

By: Prozess gegen “The Pirate Bay” beginnt | Asynchron

Prozess gegen “The Pirate Bay” beginnt | Asynchron — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:52:07 +0000

[...] to a domino effect that could knock out some other sites because of increased traffic. Torrentfreak reported this weekhosts many other BitTorrent sites. that some even expect a “BitTorrent meltdown” due to the wide [...]

By: Trixico

Trixico — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:00:06 +0000

I honestly don’t care if the pirate bay trackers go down… they’re almost always flooded with leechers and the download speeds are TERRIBLE because of that! Private trackers are much better.

By: Il Processo che Può Mutare il P2P E’ Iniziato

Il Processo che Può Mutare il P2P E’ Iniziato — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:50:59 +0000

[...] se il famoso team perdesse cosa accadrebbe?? Alcuni sostengono che l’intero p2p scomparirebbe; infatti TPB ospita quasi tutti i file e molti [...]

By: nnnnnn

nnnnnn — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:54:23 +0000

This is why you have to start using private trackers.

By: Darknet the p2p secure way. | BoonX thingks

Darknet the p2p secure way. | BoonX thingks — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:40:54 +0000

[...] an important thing about Internet apps is that they need to be quick or else….. According to this article it even seems that torrents are not that disconnected. In case of a meltdown one would expect that [...]

By: rawreeerawr

rawreeerawr — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:56:01 +0000

well first of all. its not that there would be a ton of people not downloading torrents anymore. its just all the people in china would be downloading anymore. i dont know anyone who uses a public tracker anymore. its a dumb idea. and it will just get you busted.

By: Pirate Bay On Trial | yojibee

Pirate Bay On Trial | yojibee — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:38:48 +0000

[...] If you are using BitTorrent you should be following this! 50% of all torrents are tracked by The Pirate Bay’s 8 servers, so some of us (me included) worries what will happen if they are forced to shut them down. You can read more on Torrentfreak.com here. [...]

By: Broadband Bytes: February 7-13, 2009 » Free UTOPIA!

Broadband Bytes: February 7-13, 2009 » Free UTOPIA! — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:07:46 +0000

[...] and faces the possibility of shutting down, some have started wondering if it could lead to a collapse of bitTorrent as a whole. The website currently indexes over 50% of all torrents and the remaining torrent sites [...]

By: Now if only...

Now if only... — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:37:45 +0000

Redesign p2p so when the servers go offline we share between each other, its been mentioned before & once it happens p2p will be unstoppable.

Seriously NubCakes the more $hit you say the bigger fool you look, how dumb can you be to pay for usenet & also download from private trackers.

NubCakes = “Hi everyone my name is nubcakes what’s your disability.

By: News: bit torrent might be soon dead if pirate bay goes down - India Broadband Forum

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:53:44 +0000

[...] bay goes down yes the unthinkable is happening.It must be music to the ears of isp’s esp airtel P2P Researchers Fear BitTorrent Meltdown | TorrentFreak Landmark Pirate Bay Trial Begins Monday | Threat Level from [...]

By: wha

wha — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:32:23 +0000

WTF do the Tribler folks know? Their client is a piece of crap and their own network is dire. With the increase in broadband capacity for the average peer, decentralized tracking seems to me to be more than capable of picking up the slack. Apart from the average TF reader, who really cares if TPB went offline, the world would not stop turning and p2p wouldn’t grind to a hault. I doubt it would even slow down.

The main problem is that the average person thinks the be all end all of filesharing is TPB, its not, the end user is, and if they themselves participated in the larger community by being part of a decentralized swarm they’d do far more for the p2p community that simply posting “Go Pirate Bay” on some blog, which helps no one.

By: Zaxx

Zaxx — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:23:16 +0000

Yet another one of many reasons to use the smaller, private trackers. Public trackers are for noobs or to maybe find some ‘hard to find’ material.

By: my 2 cent car crash.

my 2 cent car crash. — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:40:21 +0000

When tbp wins its case…
Free strudel for all!

By: El cierre de Pirate Bay podría implicar el fin del BitTorrent - Cybernauta

El cierre de Pirate Bay podría implicar el fin del BitTorrent - Cybernauta — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:21:39 +0000

[...] del P2P han digerido los números entre sus altas gabardinas y concluido que los ocho servidores de The Pirate Bay son responsables [...]

By: The Definitive Primer to the Pirate Bay Trial « NewTeeVee

The Definitive Primer to the Pirate Bay Trial « NewTeeVee — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:18:19 +0000

[...] to a domino effect that could knock out some other sites because of increased traffic. Torrentfreak reported this week that some even expect a “BitTorrent meltdown” due to the wide reliance on the [...]

By: deathtostrangers

deathtostrangers — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:19:23 +0000

watch “steal this film” part 1 and part 2 documentaries about tpb and file sharing community

stop using the internet if you don’t like public stuff

and mininova had some problems when tpb was down

if you are afraid of viruses it means you don’t know what to download and you shouldn’t be on the internet

public trackers are all about sharing and not being sellfish

tpb is a symbol of file sharing, that’s why is so important and if it goes down and it takes bittorrent down too it will make space for a new and improved p2p network, this happened to napster

this is just what a bunch of researchers concluded so it may or may not be true, 50-50

By: Nobody

Nobody — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:22:46 +0000

This is absolutlet rediculous and is and absolutley no basis in fact.

If TPB went down the majority of “real” torrent users wouldnt give a shit anyway as they use private trackers.

TPB like other dirty public trackers are sort of a stepping stone or gateway site for complete n00bs who have no idea.

The good thing about TPB is that the founders have enough balls to stand up to bureaucrats and this legal win should be a big one for p2p.

By: Frenk

Frenk — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:30:19 +0000

Torrents will never be dead, people will close sites but when they close a site 40 new sites launch! Like http://www.releaselog.nl started yet, I think its going to be a great community

By: Goober

Goober — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:18:13 +0000

Rubbish, if the Piratebay goes down, at least two more trackers will rise to fill the void

And if Bitorrent is taken down (by some unprecedented massive concerted global effort) then something new and more resilent will rise up

Technology will always adapt faster than the law