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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. Re:Difference is the universities' attitude by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BitTorrent, on the other hand, is often blocked by .edu ISPs, and residential customers of commercial ISPs don't have nearly the fat pipes to supply everyone who wants to download a given file.

    Good, because college students nowadays listen to crappy music. Anything that reduces their bandwidth is fine by me.

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