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Completing BitTorrent Decentralization

Posted by timothy on from the and-for-your-next-project dept.

Njaal writes "With BitTorrent going trackerless, searching for and distributing .torrent files is a natural next step. The Socialized.Net (TSN) is a pure P2P search infrastructure which facilitates P2P searching and distribution of .torrent files. It comes complete with an Azureus (and Firefox) search plugin. TSN is written in Python and is made available under the GPL. Note that this is part of my PhD thesis, and is as such meant as a technology demonstrator."

3 of 236 comments (clear)

  1. Re:clearly, this is positive by johansalk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Just a student"?... The guy is doing a PhD; many programmers have not even been in college.

  2. What is BitTorrent now? by iammaxus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Trackerless torrents and search technologies like this seems to be changing BitTorrent into a conventional p2p system. Can anyone explain the diffrence? Is it just a regular p2p system with a highly efficient segmented downloading system?

  3. Re:Google? by natrius · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Given that, how long could it be before google has a specialized .torrent search?

    Like this?