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Researchers Create Selfish BitTorrent Client

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the computer science department at the University of Washington have released BitTyrant, a new BitTorrent client that is designed to improve download performance via strategic selection of peers and upload rates. Their results call into question the effectiveness of BitTorrent's tit-for-tat reciprocation strategy which was designed to discourage selfish users. Clients are available for Windows, OS X, and Linux."

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  1. BitComet? by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    So...yet another BT client that will be banned from private torrent sites.

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