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BitTorrent May Prove Too Good to Quash

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the playing-a-game-of-whac-a-mole dept.

gollum123 writes "There is an article on washignton post on bittorrent where the author discusses why BitTorrent is here to stay. According to the author it is being increasingly used to distribute software and entertainment legally. It also mentions that in BitTorrent, unlike many other file-sharing programs, legitimate use doesn't amount to a token minority. It's central to this program's existence. It concludes by saying that the MPAA may be able to drive BitTorrent movie downloads into what Green called "the dark corners of the Internet," but this program isn't going to go away. It might, however, be just what movie studios and record labels need to market and distribute their own content efficiently on the Web."

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  1. Yeah, We figured that one out... by ShadowBlasko · · Score: 5, Informative

    Over at Empornium...

    150k member max, and still beating them away with a stick!

    No leechers rocks!

    Just as long as admins remember to lose those logs... I just *hate* hardware failures...

    dont you?

    --
    There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order- Ed Howdershelt Via Tass
    1. Re:Yeah, We figured that one out... by Slack3r78 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Most home connections are asynchronous and have a far higher download rate than upload rate. Leeching is when someone finishes a download, and doesn't seed back at least as much as they took.

  2. Use ports your ISP won't expect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might want to forward and use a set of 10 consecutive ports starting from an arbitrary number between 50000 and 60000. Some ISPs use packet shaping or throttling on the standard ports. A number of Other people I know have noticed a marked increase after following this advice.

  3. Re:BitTorrent is flawed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually this is not at all how it works, BitTorrent downloads chunks of the file in any order. The 90% you reffer to isn't the first 90% of the file it's just 90% of the file, the reason this happens is the seeder may disconnect before giving out a complete copy of the file and the sum of the stuff the connected peers have is only 90% of the file.

    Who the hell modded you up?

  4. Random First / Rarest First by Daverd · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://sailes.co.uk/sy22/bittorrent.htm

    What you said is completely false. BitTorrent uses either Random First, i.e. selects a random chunk to download, or Rarest First, i.e. downloads the chunk that the fewest clients have. It definitely does NOT go linearly from beginning to end of file. If it stalls around 90%, this is only because there are some chunks which are much more rare than others.