Bittorrent
<div class="IPBDescription">ummmm</div> What exactly is it? All I know is that it's some sort of P2P program....maybe not even that. I'm downloading it right now, but I dont even know what its like. I've seen torrent files on sites before and thats all. Where do most of you download files?
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Bittorrent is a P2P file distribution system designed to ease up the process of distributing files across the net. By using Bittorrent, companite save $$$ on bandwidth.
But yea, sorry, even tho there are lots of legit files on torrens sites, a lot of them are not legal, you'll have to find them on your own... It shouldn't be hard,.. Ask around in IRC.
With Bittorrent, you have a server called a 'tracker' which keeps track of all the clients' IP addresses, and which sections of the file they have. Clients with complete copies of the file are called 'seeds' and all they do is upload data; clients with partial copies will still upload data, effectively swapping sections with other clients in a ****-for-tat manner.
It's great for distributing big files because the bandwidth usage for the distributor is way lower than it would be when using a traditional HTTP or FTP download. One of my favourite Bittorrent download sites is <a href='http://www.filerush.com/' target='_blank'>Filerush</a> - gigabytes upon gigabytes of content.
It's <i>appallingly rubbish</i> at distributing files which shouldn't be distributed - if you're downloading an illegal copy of Photoshop, for instance, Adobe's lawyers can easily connect to the tracker and collect a list of every single IP address downloading said file.
Used for good, it's excellent - and used for bad, expect a court summons in the near future. ;-)
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anyways, well are there any sites that provide LEGAL bittorent files? Somthing that we could post on here anyways? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I pretty much only use bittorrents as a relacement from downloading normally anyways. I can give you this <a href='http://bt.ocremix.org/' target='_blank'>link</a> to OC remix, but unless you have been itching to download 1000 video game remix MP3's it probably won't entice you all to much.
Yup.
Lots of Linux distros are doing the Bittorent thing, and also download sites like 3DGamers is/was doing torrents.
Torrent is quickly becoming a legitimate means of distributing crap. Too bad it still sucks and is way slower than an HTTP download meanwhile it rapes your bandwidth speed... :/
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Also, Valve picked up the guy who wrote Bittorrent, and so now bittorrent technology is going into steam so that way you have to upload all of valve's patches for them. Yeah, I'm not too excited about that either.
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Yup.
Lots of Linux distros are doing the Bittorent thing, and also download sites like 3DGamers is/was doing torrents.
Torrent is quickly becoming a legitimate means of distributing crap. Too bad it still sucks and is way slower than an HTTP download meanwhile it rapes your bandwidth speed... :/ <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I find it just as fast and generally more reliable too, but then I would never pay for a fileplanet membership or something of that type.
Thanks, Bittorrent!
Thanks, Bittorrent! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
lol
Same here, but I need to thank Kazaa, WinMX, Shareaza, Napster, iRC, oh the list goes on... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
With Bittorrent, you have a server called a 'tracker' which keeps track of all the clients' IP addresses, and which sections of the file they have. Clients with complete copies of the file are called 'seeds' and all they do is upload data; clients with partial copies will still upload data, effectively swapping sections with other clients in a ****-for-tat manner.
It's great for distributing big files because the bandwidth usage for the distributor is way lower than it would be when using a traditional HTTP or FTP download. One of my favourite Bittorrent download sites is <a href='http://www.filerush.com/' target='_blank'>Filerush</a> - gigabytes upon gigabytes of content.
It's <i>appallingly rubbish</i> at distributing files which shouldn't be distributed - if you're downloading an illegal copy of Photoshop, for instance, Adobe's lawyers can easily connect to the tracker and collect a list of every single IP address downloading said file.
Used for good, it's excellent - and used for bad, expect a court summons in the near future. ;-) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bah, you can always say you didnt know what you downloaded, they'll still have to prove quite a few things..
<a href='http://krypt.dyndns.org:81/torrent/index.phtml' target='_blank'>Burst!</a>