Researchers Decentralize BitTorrent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @06:01AM from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

A Cow writes "The Tribler BitTorrent client, a project run by researchers from several European universities and Harvard, is the first to incorporate decentralized search capabilities. With Tribler, users can now find .torrent files that are hosted among other peers, instead of on a centralized site such as The Pirate Bay or Mininova. The Tribler developers have found a way to make their client work without having to rely on BitTorrent sites. Although others have tried to come up with similar solutions, such as the Cubit plugin for Vuze, Tribler is the first to understand that with decentralized BitTorrent search, there also has to be a way to moderate these decentralized torrents in order to avoid a flood of spam."

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Re:It's a good start... by Anonymous Coward · 2008-10-28 06:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

And exactly how many joe averages run Opera?
Re:eDonkey/eMule anyone? by fmoliveira · 2008-10-28 06:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

with ed2k I enter in the 2000th position in 2000 different queues. with torrent my download starts almost immediatly at the top speed my connection supports. I don't like the work of emule developers at the protocol, and they aren't very receptive of suggestions. I think the users voted with their downloads.