codinghorror.com — BitTorrent radically shifts the economics of distribution. It's one of the most miraculous ideas ever conceived on the internet. As far as I'm concerned, there should be a Nobel prize for computing, and the inventor of BitTorrent should be its first recipient.
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Closed AccountFeb 20, 2007
Erm, your more worried about someone seeing your public IP, over (effectively) willingly downloading(/uploading) files to servers your own ISP owns?- Ben
nayrFeb 20, 2007
go transmission!!!lightweight; 'tis all you need.
stevetsFeb 21, 2007
I see all of these people saying nice things about Usenet getting dugg down. For what? Saying bad things about your mom? They are just saying that there is an alternative to Bit Torrent, which is safer, faster, and more reliable. Usenet. Ya know, I would bet that the vast majority of users using Bit Torrent have no idea what Usenet even is. Screw having to wait for seeds and maintaining dozens of connections at once. Yeah, premium usenet isn't free, but for 15 bucks a month you can get a whole lot of free software, music, and movies. All while never having to worry about seeds, or fake content, or keeping peer guardian updated. Lets not forget that the speed is pretty constant; my 6Mb connection gets maxed out with eight connections - and it doesn't stop. So you Bit Torrent fanboys can digg me down if it makes you feel better about yourself. Meanwhile, I'll go download something. Oh yeah, and ISP's don't employ any traffic shaping techniques on Usenet packets, much like they do with p2p.
m2ys4uFeb 21, 2007
I'm on NTL (sorry, "Virgin Media" now) and I've had no problems whatsoever downloading from bittorrent.
aeliasFeb 21, 2007
Cohen needs to be in the books./
darkamster07Feb 21, 2007
yeah, I absolutely love transmission. just get the torrent file, then drag n' drop, transmission takes care of the rest by itself, with surprisingly high speeds.
fhionnlaochFeb 21, 2007
Shaw and Rogers are totally different companies. Nevertheless, with RC4 encryption, you can get up to 200 kb/s on Shaw.
mileslombardiFeb 21, 2007
Oh it's just one of those times you really want Digg to have a personal messaging system :S. Oh well.It's miles.lombardi at gmail dot comThankyou very much.