PC magazine has just written a short guide on torrents. It also review's & rates four clients, there is also a Q&A with Bram Cohen. BitTorrent is the brainchild of Bram Cohen, a self-proclaimed "lone coder" from New York City. His revolutionary approach to online file sharing first hit the Net in 2001, and by the summer of 2004, it was driving over 50 percent of the world's peer-to-peer traffic.
For the full guide go to Torrents :cool2:
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We've all heard bits and pieces about BitTorrent, here and there, true and untrue—it's used for trading illegal files; it's illegal; it's too obscure for anyone but teenagers; it's the easiest way to download large files. But we have heard about it, because although BitTorrent itself is legal, it's one of the fastest ways to trade all sorts of files, and therefore, it's often mentioned when illegal file-sharing comes up. Actually, BitTorrent is just one torrent client—the first and most famous one to use the BitTorrent protocol.
Developed by Bram Cohen as a solution to large-file download bottlenecks—not to mention the problem of "leeches," people who download files but then don't share them as uploads—BitTorrent is a very effective tool for distributing big files online. And with good reason: BitTorrent works amazingly well to spread out the burden of creating thousands of copies of a file across the clients, or peers, that are downloading the file. That means there's no large central server to keep running, or massive bandwidth bills to pay for. It also means we can download, say, a 600MB Linux distro in a few short minutes.
Clients Reviewed :
For the full guide go to Torrents :cool2:
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We've all heard bits and pieces about BitTorrent, here and there, true and untrue—it's used for trading illegal files; it's illegal; it's too obscure for anyone but teenagers; it's the easiest way to download large files. But we have heard about it, because although BitTorrent itself is legal, it's one of the fastest ways to trade all sorts of files, and therefore, it's often mentioned when illegal file-sharing comes up. Actually, BitTorrent is just one torrent client—the first and most famous one to use the BitTorrent protocol.
Developed by Bram Cohen as a solution to large-file download bottlenecks—not to mention the problem of "leeches," people who download files but then don't share them as uploads—BitTorrent is a very effective tool for distributing big files online. And with good reason: BitTorrent works amazingly well to spread out the burden of creating thousands of copies of a file across the clients, or peers, that are downloading the file. That means there's no large central server to keep running, or massive bandwidth bills to pay for. It also means we can download, say, a 600MB Linux distro in a few short minutes.
Clients Reviewed :
- Azureus 2.3.0.6
- BitPump 1.0
- BitTorrent Client 4.2
- µTorrent 1.2.2