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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. Serious Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Bittorrent network?! I thought it was decentalized...