Tribler: Social BitTorrent Beta version Leaked

Written by Ernesto on February 28, 2006 

A private Beta version of Tribler, the new “social BitTorrent client” leaked to the public. The Beta version allows you to add friends and peers. Tribler also introduces “recommendations” based on your personal profile.

The final version will allow you to import existing groups from programs like MSN and Gmail. Tribler is based on the sourcecode of the ABC torrent client and supports “regular” torrents. By doing a search on some the most popular torrent sites a leaked Beta was easily found.

More info
Tribler.org
Leaked Version

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9 Responses

1 Feb 28, 2006 at 03:01 by ukaze

Nice to see a client like this. The idea of importing freinds sounds excelent.

2 Feb 28, 2006 at 06:53 by Captain Crunch

yep, but what about the RIAA and MPAA finding u cause ur on someones friend list :/

3 Feb 28, 2006 at 07:34 by Eambo

yea i think this could, while a good idea, cause an uproar. the point in anomysity is that you can download anything and not have it traced to you. if your gonna have a massive list off 100+ illegally downloaded programs on your computer, and it’s showing up all over someone else’s computer with your name on it, not exactly the smartest thing ever is it?

4 Feb 28, 2006 at 07:49 by Captain Crunch

exactly.. and they have an ID that traces back to you, with ur IP adress…

so the question is..
will people actually use this?
yes. the noobs will.
but the people who know about stupid copyright laws wont. were too smart for it anyways.. the idea of having a list of downloads u made and rating them is nice, but its a big risk of getting caught.. unless ur downloading legal stuff like nix distros and nasa’s huge image files and junk that u could download off download.com..lol

5 Feb 28, 2006 at 10:23 by Anonymous

Think about it. If you have a large web of leechers, and they’re all interconnected some how - software like this makes it EASY for the RIAA to untangle the web and bust everyone!

Every single person that links to you, and everyone linked to them (etc.. etc), puts YOU AT RISK.

Nice idea, wrong application.

6 Feb 28, 2006 at 11:19 by Maverick

The RIAA do nothing. However, other more powerfull groups can. In my opinion, this client is the worst idea to hit the community. I sure hope that other clients don’t follow this. Else, I’ll have to find a text based Linux one… I wonder if there is one :-P

7 Feb 28, 2006 at 17:51 by bas

I have the RIAA on my list, they share like it’s thanksgiving:)

8 Feb 28, 2006 at 20:29 by Soulxlight

Yeah, this whole thing sound like it can hit the fan. Anyone out there who got any information on the final version. This thing have got to have more to draw people to it then just chatting with some online friends. Yeah, the donating bandwith and all, but that is really nothing special. So any more info on tribler?

9 Mar 06, 2006 at 05:54 by insignis

I think Tribler is aimed at people sharing things LEGALLY on BT. Whether or not it benefits you or me directly, it will indirectly by helping give some more credibility to BT, which means fewer people scared off and more people using it.

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