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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."
If you lower the cost of entry to producing a BT release, won't that mean more .torrent file swimming around? With the increase of different torrents everywhere, won't that dilute the power of BT?
Is it legal to post only in questions?
I think we'll see two things:
1) **AA will squirm for a while
2) **AA will work harder than before to moniyor and restrict user rights on the internet, via congressional purchasesing, er, I mean lobbying.
I think #2 will ultimately be futile in that it will not slow their loss of control over media content distribution (and copyright violation) but it will make life unpleasant for many...
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This is realy the cat and mouse game at it's best. BitTorrent is getting better each day. While the RIAA and MPAA is closing the hosting website, Attacking ISP from around the globe, etc.
Is this a combat to the death ?
I guess nothing will beat private exchange ? (DRM)
What's needed is some kind of distributed HTTP overnet that works; that can handle dynamic content semi-intelligently, and MUCH faster than freenet/frost sites.
Something like i2p?
Update: it seems bt mainline uses khashmir instead of the azureus protocol. This is a bad thing. If this reaches a release, we'll have a case where two bittorrent clients are truly incompatible, and the result may cause difficulties for the technology itself.
If he's doing things exactly like Azureus, then a torrent file can be retrieved from anyone known via DHT to be part of that swarm... it's called a magnet url.
This is the reason why DHT, as the monkeys released it, is a Bad Thing(tm). They should've err'd on the side of caution and assumed torrents were "private" unless explicitly marked otherwise. Because they added the "private" flag to the info dictionary, sites cannot retroactively privatize their torrents -- it changes the info_hash, which is the exact reason why the monkeys put it there (where it technically doesn't belong.)
I wouldn't touch that with a 50ft pole. My money says that swarm is being monitored for the next round of John Doe lawsuits. (esp. with the recently inacted laws.)
(all you have to do is join the swarm and sit back and log all the IPs reported by the tracker and from all the inbound connections.)
Well, I've done habitat for humanity too.
A week in 96 degree sun building houses for the homeless.
AND I also like BT.
I agree the artists need some money to keep working. I disagree that they won't write or create new art unless they get millions of dollars. I really disagree that the middlemen who do nothing that can't be replaced by BT should get rich. I donate money to artists (via magnatune among others) where I know the artists are actually going to see a majority of the money and I've established that I like the art.
I also try some stuff, don't pay for it, don't bother to delete it but never listen to it again.
There is now more quality songs/art/tv shows/movies than I could watch/listen to if I spent every day from waking to sleeping consuming it. Only monopolies are holding up the prices- but the glut is coming and prices will drop.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.