BitTorrent
Hi all,
Has anyone heard of BitTorrent (BT) before? I reckon most western people are not familiar with this new technology because the name is rare on all English Internet. However, BT is very popular in China. It, simply saying, is a kind of download software. Each complete original source, say a movie, is regarded as a seed. When you want to download the movie, they must make sure those who hold the seed are on line, so that you are connected. More people on line means you get more seeds, getting download process faster. Meanwhile, you, become a new seed and take the responsibility to spread source to other down loaders automatically. Couple of months before, I used BT for downloading movies. However, recently, I find it not a good tool to use, and I don't recommend people to use it. The reason is that BT badly hurts hard disk on our PC. Ordinary downloading software put all downloaded details together and records them onto hard disk once, which means they could only hurt our PC once. However, BT record information individually as it finishes each element. So, our computer will get damaged. Another big concern is that because BT requires an open and sharing internet environment, piracy would become common, and personal copyright could be violated.
Melissa（mfu005）
posted by Anonymous @ 10:32 pm
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I agree. And BitTorrent is just such a great concept: turning the old problem of traffic congestion on its head so the more cars on the road, the quicker you get to work. And thanks for trying not to get the class blacklisted!
BitTorrent is MASSIVE in the US. I learned about it a while back and was using it daily till I moved into Railway Campus were access to the requiered ports is blocked. I love that as a technology its very hard to just download and disapear, you start sharing the second you begin downloading which is great way to keep speed of downloads up and availibility to files. I cant way till we see the revision that does not need a seed list in advance being that thats been the big way of removing bit torrents is killing the search engines that display the torrent files. I use it to distribute my little collection of indy films i have made as well as help support my friend who is a programer get his progams out there to the public. Its also a lot cleaner since most of the files are good vs many popular progams right now like limewhere where the RIAA and MPAA have infested the network with junk files to try and get people to stop using the system.
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