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- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49I installed one of these in my microwave, now all my torrents are self nuking.
- AReallyGoodName, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20It's not a bitorrent processor.
It's simply an ARM922 general purpose CPU with bitorrent running on it. - ibolt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13What? Then... why not just implement it on a motherboard right away? Why on a PhysX processor board? I don't think the bittorrent acceleration is going to be a selling point for a PhysX card.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12And now we see the reason uTorrent was bought by Bittorrent; rip the BT implementation out of uTorrent, stick it on a firmware image and sell chips based on the design. I have to admit, it sounds like a good idea, however, I think they're targeting it to the wrong appliances; Bittorrent as a protocol is simply a meshing technology, so why not add it to hardware that's likely to move and thus need to mesh with other hardware such as phones and portable devices? The biggest problem would be that Bittorrent uses a lot of memory, so you'd probably need to pair it with either a flash device of some kind, or a large SRAM (and leave it up to the implementors to add battery backup if it's important).
It also just goes to show you how versatile the ARM chip is as a platform, but I'll leave that for another day. - Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Because 3D graphics applications are very intensive while a simple filesharing protocal isn't?
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8FTFA: :-)
"With an install base of over 135 million worldwide, the protocol is the leading platform used to facilitate the distribution of video, music, games, and software. BitTorrent has signed content license agreements with over 20 leading entertainment companies, including 20th Century Fox, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. By adopting the technology, content providers will be able to deliver large media files to millions of viewers simultaneously without investing heavily in server hardware and bandwidth."
What a delicious irony, that they are using all the file sharers, whom they have been persecuting, as an example of how successful that 'platform' is!
And now, the Bit Torrent platform is going to save them a lot of money.
A simple 'Thank You' would be much appreciated...between lawsuits. - geekee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6except that bit-torrent users will complain if they have to pay for movies as well as provide uploading. I've already seen it happen at this suggestion before. No one will have the movies you'll need to pay for, and the whole system falls back into free-only movies.
- rubicante, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@geekee: Skype does that now and the average person does not complain. It uses peoples computers as a relay between two NAT routers and transfers the conversation fully encrypted.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"so why not add it to hardware that's likely to move and thus need to mesh with other hardware such as phones and portable devices..."
Oh Nooooo! Not phones! Imagine you are talking to someone, assisted by other people's phones -- it will just make hacking into your conversation a little too easy. But on the good side, you won't need to be near a cell-phone transmission tower -- as long as there is a line of people with cell phones between you and the nearest tower. - CanOfMDAmp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Why have a dedicated GPU when you can have the CPU do all the work?
Same idea. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Pay?! No Way! It would be easier to move over to usenet!
- Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I don't see this being marketed to the average Digg user (pirate). Instead it'll probably be useful for something like a set-top box where networks can diliver on-demand video via Bit-torrent.
- magusat999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What a retarded idea; what a waste of money. A processor based on Bittorrent??? I can't even describe how stupid that is. Bittorrents "user base" comes from the pre-sale Bittorrent - not the commercialized Bittorrent thay are trying turn it into. If they ever completely stop illegal software from being available over Bittorrent, it will be as dead as any of the other defunct filesharing places. When's the last time anyone has been on WinMX? DCC+? How about Shareaza??? Is even Napster enjoying the traffic it had before it became "legal"? NO! Bittorrent's new owners are deceiving the public, trying to act as if it is so popular because of it's "legal" offerings, while capitalizing off of the former success, and looking the other way while some of the illegal activity goes on so it can preserve false numbers and errantly draw in unwary investors. Anyone who would put money into that operation before they finally put the hammer down on illegal downloads is a fool! But maybe someone who is sharp enough can get in on some shares and sell it to one of those idiots before the ball drops... might as well capitalize off of the stupidity and wanton partings of fools from their money...
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It's not VOICE data you'd want to use BT with, it's INTERNET data, such as Web data. Instead of having to go all the way out to the net, you cache it all using a bittorrent network, and grab what's available from the neighboring devices. Saves those precious kilobits the phone companies charge you for arm and fist every month.
Why on Earth anyone would jump to voice from Bittorrent is beyond me. - dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Erm, this isn't intended to go anywhere near a PC, it's for embedded devices, like routers - And, when the movie/music industries finally come around to accepting Bittorrent as a valid distribution method, dedicated hardware seeding-boxes, which is an extremely interesting idea.. Being able to buy the box, shove it in a rack, then simply upload a file to, it then creates a .torrent file, and acts as an intial seeding box, and as a tracker, which would reduce a companies bandwidth by offloading some of the uploading to clients.
- Ben - GrantTheGr8, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Call me stupid but I don't really get it. Are they saying you can share processing power with this thing? How would that work? I read most of the article but it only served to confuse me further.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Also in the news today:
There's a new downloading protocol that is optimized for Britney Spears' music.
It's called Bitch Torrent!
(I'll be here all night -- but don't tell Sockpuppets I stole his line.) - whereisian, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3or just add a specialized core to the cpu.
- hockyfight, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3Pretty cool if you think about this, they should just figure out how to add such a simple chip onto a product such as Ageia's PhysX processor board, then they could market the board as useful for something other than 10 games that look to physics intensive to be real. And you would have no reason to waste another PCI slot on your mobo.
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