Trackerless BitTorrent Beta Posted

jgarzik writes "BitTorrent development is occuring at a furious pace. At the beginning of May, an Azureus update added distributed tracker and database features. Yesterday, Bram updated BitTorrent to include support for trackerless torrents in the new BitTorrent 4.10 beta."

Comments

Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

[autophile]

See you in Guantanamo, "Bram".

Damn it!

[Anonymous Coward]

I hate it when I squeeze harder and things start to slip through my fingers.

Re:Damn it!

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to subpoena a teenager is insignificant next to the power of the MPAA.

Re:Damn it!

[TheStupidOne]

That's no tracker, it's a client!!!

Re:Damn it!

[LordLucless]

The ability to subpoena a teenager is insignificant next to the power of the MPAA

Your sad devotion to that ancient business method has not helped you conjure up the stolen music, or given you clairvoyance enough to tell the difference between a technophobic grandmother and a music pirate.

Hmm...

[conchobar0928]

Is it just a coincidence that this enhancement has come the day before the new Star Wars movie?

Re:Hmm...

[ErikTheRed]

Is it just a coincidence that this enhancement has come the day before the new Star Wars movie?

I sense a great disturbance in the force... as if George Lucas' bank account cried out in terror... and then... silence.

Either that, or I just have a headache.

Re:How

[blixel]

how can you connect to a torrent download if you don't know where to start? Isn't the starting point the same as a tracker?

There's an A-end and a B-end seperated by some amount of time. Say 1 minute. At the A-end, you start your search for the torrent. The search continues for 60 seconds until the torrent is found at the B-end. The torrent data is then loaded at the B-end which is picked back up at the A-end 60 seconds prior. From your perspective, it happens instantly.

The searches are also modular in design. So you can actually include a second search at the B-end. So at the A-end, you might actually get back a second result for something you didn't even know you searched for.

Don't worry about the noise in the attic. It's just birds.

Re:Diluting its strengths?

[F13]

Is it legal to post only in questions?

Yes, Yes it is. The Independent Thought Police have been dispatched.

Have a nice day.

Damn it! K-Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

"I hate it when I squeeze harder and things start to slip through my fingers."

Let's leave your sex life out of this.

How the new Trackerless Protocol works

[Anonymous Coward]

The new Bittorrent protocol was designed by the same developers who designed the original TCP/IP protocol in the 70s. But this new protocol has a decidedly "edgy" feel to it. Below is the "handshaking" procedure. There are a few similarities between it and SMTP:

client1: gimme the warez
client2: who's askin'?
client1: me, mutherfucka
client2: well, your story checks out - here's da shit.

I know what you're thinking - how will they handle flow control? The trackerless developers also thought of that:

client1: the shit's comin' slow - speed it up
client2: get off my back, bitch
client1: don't make me bust a cap in yo' ass!
client2: all aight, all aight... sheee-it.

Re:So...Idle Hands are...

[Jeremi]

It's like the VCR, guns, or deep fryers. They can all be used for good or for evil.

Hmm. How does one use a deep fryer for evil? Open a KFC?

Re:So...Idle Hands are...

[Jace of Fuse!]

Hmm. How does one use a deep fryer for evil? Open a KFC?

Oh what? Like YOU'VE never heard of a deep fried a baby. Sure, sure. All of those KFC and and french-fry lovers like to stand up and say that a ban would be against their best interests, but even they know the primary reason people get deep fryers is for cooking babies.