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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. BitTornado. The difference? by Volvogga · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I appologize in advance.
    Before this gets modded down into oblivion for being offtopic, can anyone tell me what the differences are between BitTorrent and BitTornado?
    I keep seeing that BitTornado and offshot clients like ABC are an improvement on BitTorrent. Is this true, and if so, are the benifits worth it (such as is there an increased performance)? Also, does this new implimentation of the 'trackerless' BitTorrent obsolete BitTornado anyway?
    Again, sorry about being offtopic, but I just can't seem to find a decent answer to my question anywhere else. So I grovel before my fellow /.-ians, and ask for their wisdom.

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  2. Re:So... by wampus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Baldness is caused by a bad body chemical called DHT.

  3. Re:So...Idle Hands are... by Kadmium · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How does one use a gun for good?

  4. P2P !=guns by gosand · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    As for this being less than honorable, that's the eye of the beholder. It's like the VCR, guns, or deep fryers. They can all be used for good or for evil. Just because they can be used for evil doesn't obviate they're good potential, nor should we ban them because of their potential for abuse.

    Your argument would have been a bit stronger if you would have said knives instead of guns. Guns are designed to kill - period. Now they might be used for hunting, but guns have evolved so far away from being hunting tools that they barely resemble their origins. I am not against guns, I grew up around them (hunting and non-hunting purposes). But if I HAD to choose sides, I would choose the anti-gun side. Simply because I know how dangerous they are and think that their danger outweighs their benefit. Not to mention that people are idiots and idiots and guns don't mix well. But in all honesty I know it is just a pontification, because there is no way to put Pandora back in the box.

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