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Will OSX Build In Torrenting?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 1, 2006 @06:33AM from the imagine-that-itunes-catalog dept.

Cjattwood writes "Mac OS rumors has an article describing a possible implementation of a Bittorrent client into Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard", including a unique sharing reward system where the user can share bandwidth and get rewards, such as credit in the iTunes store."

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Re:DRM? by Luscious868 · 2006-05-01 06:38 · Score: 5, Informative

RTFA. Traffic would occur on non-standard ports and you wouldn't be able to share anything you wanted. You would donate your bandwidth to share content Apple approved like software updates. It makes perfect sense and I'd certianly donate my bandwith at home when I'm at work in exchange for iTunes credits.