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Is BitTorrent Search Harmful?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-you-peer-what-i-peer dept.

protee writes "p2pnet published a report arguing that the robustness of BitTorrent to free-riding might have been more related to the lack of meta-data search rather than to its tit-for-tat-like strategy. The question now is: how the release of such search engines is going to impact the BitTorrent network?"

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  1. It'll obviously help out such networks. by CyricZ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Such networks thrive because individuals can find the content they want. Searches will help improve that much as has happened with the World Wide Web. Remember, it didn't become explosively popular until the early search engines like Yahoo!, Altavista and Magellan came about.

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  2. Re:Difference is the universities' attitude by CyricZ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But they don't need the "fat pipes" to supply everyone who wants to download a given file. That's the very nature of BitTorrent! Indeed, the decentralized nature of BitTorrent allows for individuals or non-profit projects (ie. Slackware) to distribute massive files at neglible cost.

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  3. Re:Funny search by Troed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    (Note: I'm Swedish, just like the ones running and hosting Piratebay)

    So what happens when pirate bay gets busted by the RIAA-imperial navy?

    It's not clear whether they are breaking any Swedish laws - that's why they're so smug and play around with all the takedown notices. The only law they _might_ break would be something like "large scale contributing to copyright infringement" but even that's a stretch. There's a reason why they haven't been charged with anything yet, even though the Swedish Anti Piracy Beaureu are all over the piracy sites they know they can bring down in court.

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