BitTorrent Launches Beta of Torrent-Based Browser Project Maelstrom

Posted by timothy on Friday April 10, 2015 @11:09AM from the bits-and-pieces-from-all-over dept.

An anonymous reader writes BitTorrent today launched Project Maelstrom, the company's distributed browser, in beta. The company also released new tools on GitHub that let developers and publishers build content for the browser. Announced in December, Project Maelstrom, then just an invite-only alpha, was described as "the first torrent-based browser." The launch today is an open beta, meaning anyone can now try an early version of Maelstrom. You do, however, need a Windows computer. Windows users can download the beta now from here. Since the alpha, BitTorrent says it has improved stability, integrated support for automatic updates, and added DHT visualization for users when loading torrents.

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Re:Freenet by Anonymous Coward · 2015-04-10 11:42 · Score: 5, Informative

Not really, freenet has many features that this lacks, such as encryption and deniability.
This has some features, such as being distributed and every download is bit perfect.
This is primitive compared to things already available, really.
See IPFS.io for something that builds off the ideas of git, bittorrent, freenet, camlistore for a more permanent solution. In fact, they call it The Permanent Web.
https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
https://sourcegraph.com/blog/ipfs-the-permanent-web-by-juan-benet-talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa4pckodM9g