Bittorent is nearly 3 years old and still getting more popular evey day. Let’s take a look at the “old” days. In the first half of 2003 BitTorrent had his big break. It started with porn, because Bram Cohen needed a lot of peers to test the protocol, and it seemed that giving away free porn was the best way to do this.
uTorrent is a highly customizable torrent client which allows you to add your favorite torrentsites to search.
Slyck reports that an increasing number of private trackers is banning Bitcomet because it is ignoring the “private flag”.
A week ago I tested the 3 most popular clients (Azureus, Bitcomet, and uTorrent) to see which of the 3 performed the best.
BTseasonPass is a TV-torrent site that allows you to select (once you signed up) which shows appear on the site.
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.
USA today has an interesting column about the ongoing “war against filesharing”.
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