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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. Re:How by dzo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bittorrent.htm google for the rest

  2. Application of DHTs by Spezzer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I just learned about Distributed Hash Tables this past semester and thought they were really cool. On the page it mentions the use of aDHT in order to do the join/lookup required for locating peers.

    If you are interested in how it works, you can check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_tabl e/ for more info on them and links to example DHT implementations (such as CAN, Chord, and Kademlia).

  3. "legal" by tepples · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There is already free trackers out there that will host your torrents, as long as they are legal.

    If I write a song, how can I prove that it is "legal"?

  4. Re:So... by kjots · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Quick! Somebody patent DHT!