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Researchers Create Selfish BitTorrent Client

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the surprised-it-took-this-long dept.

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. Re:In other news... by minus_273 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Rule #1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    RTFA. So many ignorant comments.

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

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  4. Re:In other news... by beckerist · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    omg manbearpig is super-cereal! seriously, you guys!