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Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown

Posted by kdawson on from the domino-effect dept.

secmartin writes "Researchers at Delft University warn that large parts of the BitTorrent network might collapse if The Pirate Bay is forced to shut down. A large part of the available torrents use The Pirate Bay as tracker, and other available trackers will probably be overloaded if all traffic is shifted there. TPB is currently using eight servers for their trackers. According to the researchers, even trackerless torrents using the DHT protocol will face problems: 'One bug in a DHT sorting routine ensures that it can only "stumble upon success", meaning torrent downloads will not start in seconds or minutes if Pirate Bay goes down in flames.'"

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  1. Is it me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or is Slashdot seemingly trying to make their UI more unusable every day!

    1. Re:Is it me. by Hatta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yes. They need to fucking cut this shit out. Seriously.

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    2. Re:Is it me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I just dropped a massive deuce and I don't know which looks better -- the deutschmark staring back up at me from the bowl, or the Slashdot homepage

    3. Re:Is it me. by wastedlife · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I believe Ubuntu has files and other settings transfer ability from Windows. I know it prompted me the last time I made a clean install asking if I would like that stuff transferred. Apps on the other hand are not even transferred between Windows installs unless you do an in-place upgrade on the same machine. I doubt we'll ever see an in-place "upgrade" option from Windows to any *nix distro.

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  2. UI Design Fail. by hattig · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What happened?

    The front page is a pile of teal bricks!

    I can't seem to expand the stories expect by going to the story / comments page. The "+" on the teal brick doesn't expand the story in-place.

    Argh. WTF. UI Design Fail.

    1. Re:UI Design Fail. by Noryungi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Disable the beta index. It's beta for a reason.

      How do you do this? I tried www.slashdot.org/index.pl but it just switches me back to "index2.pl".

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  3. Obama comments on Judd Gregg's withdrawl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    from consideration as Commerce Secretary: "If I said it wasn't a disappointment, that would lack credibility."

    Then why don't you just say that you're disappointed, you aloof piece of shit? So much for being a uniter and attracting bipartisan support. This guy Gregg couldn't even stomach you in spite of you dangling a cabinet post in front of him.

    1. Re:Obama comments on Judd Gregg's withdrawl by CarpetShark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Then why don't you just say that you're disappointed,

      Because stupid people would understand enough of it to attack him with it. In this day and age, it makes sense for politicians to encode things for people capable of rational thought.

  4. BooFuckingHoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More importantly, why do I only see titles on the front page, and no stories?

    This is forcing me to click on every one of them in order to read them and decide if the topic is interesting enough for me to spend some time reading comments.

    Very annoying.

  5. Re:Tag this FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who cares about torrents anyways ... Real men use USENET ...

  6. Re:Tag this FUD by jellomizer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So who will pickup the slack for Slashdot new UI. Where for some reason you can get more Info from the RSS Feed.

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  7. Re:The market will find a way by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >>>Is a 486 processor with 12 megabyte enough speed/room to run a Linux OS?

    Yes using Darn Small Linux, but it will be virtually unusable since 12 meg isn't enough room to run FireFox or OpenOffice. Don't waste your money buying any machine with less than 100 meg of RAM.

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