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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."

2 of 281 comments (clear)

  1. azureus fork by goarilla · · Score: 0, Redundant

    when you see the picture, it really looks like an
    azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ fork even the icons are similar

  2. This is How BitTorrent Will Die From Within by johnrpenner · · Score: 0, Redundant


    P2P survives on the goodwill of its users.
    This is How BitTorrent Will Die From Within.