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BitTorrent Turns 10

Posted by Soulskill on from the many-happy-seeds-of-the-day dept.

ktetch-pirate writes "On this day, 10 years ago, Bram Cohen released the first bittorrent client to the public. Most P2P protocols have had a rapid rise and then a drop-off as the subsequent 'best thing' has come out, but after 10 years, nothing has bested bittorrent, and it still remains king of the P2P castle. Just when will it be replaced?"

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  1. Re:Pretty much never? by klapaucjusz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nowadays there is such thing as "trackerless torrents". No idea how it works, but it works.

    It uses a technique known as a Kademlia Distributed Hash Table (DHT). It's a rather tricky algorithm, which turns out to work beautifully for this particular application.

    --jch