BitTorrent 2005 part 7, Advancing
So where do we go from here? What’s the next step, what’s hot and what will 2006 bring to the BitTorrent community? More rss? AJAX? a little more web 2.0? Great Design?
So where do we go from here? What’s the next step, what’s hot and what will 2006 bring to the BitTorrent community? More rss? AJAX? a little more web 2.0? Great Design?
Two thing that shook up the BitTorrent community in 2005 (clientwise). First the intoduction of so called “trackerless torrents”. Second: uTorrent, a lightweight torrent client with a lot of features.
When suprnova.org was taken offline 19 december 2004, there was a gap to fill. Initially lokitorrent took over. Lokitorrent’s traffic tripled within a week. But a month later lokitorrent died too.
Torrent sites go down. That’s the way it always has been, and this is also true for 2005.
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