Comments on: Littleshoot Adds BitTorrent Capabilities to Any Browser

By: Adam Fisk

Adam Fisk — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:12:26 +0000

@51 The instructional video idea is a good one, and we’ll likely get to that at some point. If you have any more specifics about what gave you problems, we can also just fix ‘em. Did you download the beta and not the older version? I definitely recommend the beta for everyone at this point, and it will go live sometime soon.

By: Adam Fisk

Adam Fisk — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:10:42 +0000

@ista No worries at all. Keep in mind too that every line of code in LittleShoot is open source. We’re not some sketchy company trying to pull one over on anyone — just a group of coders trying to make some cool software.

By: the guy

the guy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:28:36 +0000

Pulling my hair out….deleting this for a second time.

The only thing i find this useful for is as a mass torrent and file search engine…the results appear but apparently only those with majors in rocket science prevail.

Sorry Adam, you seam like a nice well spoken guy…but this is just too difficult to figure out

perhaps you could post a ten minute walk-through video on youtube?

love the the idea, keep it up….but keep it simple. Cheers

By: Adam Fisk

Adam Fisk — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:49:49 +0000

@46 *Exactly* – that’s precisely what LittleShoot is getting at. I’d add one minor tweak — sites should offer and *big* files they have available as torrents. For small files, the added initial latency and minor savings make it not worth it. P2P should be the method for distributing large files on any site, period. The only reason it isn’t now is usability. You have to open up all these big bulky external clients every time you click a torrent.

I think that’s the direction things will head soon.

By: Adam Fisk

Adam Fisk — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:45:56 +0000

@45 I’m not saying you can’t build an ad-hoc infrastructure that does everything you need to do cheaply. I’m saying you can build that ad-hoc infrastructure in 1 week and have it scale to 5 million page views for free. That’s what App Engine gives you. Sure, you pay incrementally after that (still not much), but the reduction in development time as well as the low-risk cost structure make it extremely attractive. The Pirate Bay guys have done a fantastic job scaling, but no one scales better than Google, sorry =). You can literally have a simple app up and running in 15 minutes that scales to 5 million page views without paying a penny.

By: Adam Fisk

Adam Fisk — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:41:25 +0000

@47 Ahhh…huh? LittleShoot doesn’t ever connect with PayPal for anything. Not sure if you’re running Ethereal or what, but I’d have a second look before firing off misinformation.

We have a lot of jars because LittleShoot is extremely modular, allowing developers to easily swap in new download algorithms for example – so there are a lot of very small jars. Many programs lump all of there code together (into one huge jar, for example), but that frequently makes the program far less flexible going forward, as everything is dependent on everything else.

To remove LittleShoot on a Mac, you can just delete

1) /Applications/LittleShoot
2) /Library/LittleShoot/LittleShootPlugin
3) /Library/Application Support/LittleShoot

Do you have other issues with it besides the difficulty uninstalling and the erroneous PayPal thing (again, we don’t connect to PayPal)? We’d love to hear your feedback if so, and we’ll likely just change it.

Thanks.

-Adam Fisk

By: the guy

the guy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:41:46 +0000

Warning!!! This software is the biggest P.O.S. that has ever been developed.
I benefit nothing from saying this.DO NOT DOWNLOAD.
If you don’t have “Little Snitch” try using it, you’ll see what i mean.
Bittorrent ask for permission to connect to I.P.s in your area or trackers. LittleShoot wants to allow Paypal to connect? Why?

Anyway. I know Macs fairly well. That being said, removing programs and files from my Mac is easy….BUT. With over 100 .jar files running for no reason with this program. it took 2 reboots to remove.

P2P. uTorrent, bittorent, transmission instead

Developers….clean up the trash….thanks anyway

By: Littleshoot aproxima ainda mais BitTorrent do navegador da Web | Remixtures

Littleshoot aproxima ainda mais BitTorrent do navegador da Web | Remixtures — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:27:30 +0000

[...] grande desvantagem do cliente de BitTorrent do LittleShoot é que, como o Janko Roettgers refere no TorrentFreak, ele não oferece quaisquer opções de configuração pelo que todos os dados são guardados num [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:19:11 +0000

I’ve been thinking for a long time, sites should simply offer whatever files they have available for download as torrents, with the site as a dedicated seed, with other people that download the files getting to opt-in as seeders if they wish. I can see this getting us one step closer to true decentralisation of data, if it becomes a big thing.

By: Name

Name — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:03:07 +0000

@43
thepratebay.com runs off the technology explained by 40 just explained so it’s not tough to believe. In other words a single person routes about 5% of all internet traffic through home built servers and infrastructure. This is throughly explained here: http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-how-to-dismantle-a-billion-dollar-industry-081030/