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Trackerless BitTorrent Beta Posted

Posted by samzenpus on from the update dept.

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."

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  1. Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? by autophile · · Score: 5, Funny

    See you in Guantanamo, "Bram".

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  2. Damn it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:Damn it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

  3. Hmm... by conchobar0928 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:Hmm... by ErikTheRed · · Score: 5, Funny
      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.
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  4. Re:How by blixel · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Damn it! K-Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Let's leave your sex life out of this.

  6. How the new Trackerless Protocol works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. Re:So...Idle Hands are... by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Funny
    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?

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