torrentfreak.com — While the file-sharing ecosystem is currently filled with uncertainty and doubt, researchers at Delft University of Technology continue to work on their decentralized BitTorrent network. Their Tribler client doesn't require torrent sites to find or download content, as it is based on pure peer-to-peer communication.
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agmlauncherFeb 8, 2012
"The only way to take it down is to take the Internet down"
And guess what our ignorant bought and paid for Congress would do?
IxodoiFeb 8, 2012
No just the US Congress. Sometimes I think that there is something about politic: However decided to take this road loss a lot of IQ. It seems politician all over the word care only about their chair and nothing else. They forget who voted for them 2 second after they are elected.
ben7337Feb 9, 2012
No they don't forget. They just never cared in the first place. Votes are all traded, they hardly read or understand what they vote on, some votes are just outright bought, and in the end they only use elections to pretend to kind of be on people's sides for the votes, nothing more.
IxodoiFeb 9, 2012
Yes, you are right. What scared me is that at least in the past you could point out several (few) politician how actually did care, and went to politic in order to make things better, but lately I can even spot those few.
badwetterFeb 8, 2012
Looks interesting. Downloaded for a spin.
badwetterFeb 9, 2012
Excuse me replying to me own post, but this has a few dependencies on Linux eh? About 16 for me on a Debian Wheezy/Sid sys. Yikes. :)
koushiroFeb 8, 2012
Sounds very interesting. I look forward to using it for completely legitimate reasons.
tumultuoustFeb 9, 2012
Hahaha
forchristaloneFeb 8, 2012
They will never stop piracy. People are meant to share. Nice work guys! Hope this gets popular for you!
cowicideFeb 8, 2012
Yet another step towards decentralized mesh Internet. The greedy corporatists keep unknowingly pushing us ALL towards it.
Mesh Internet is becoming more and more inevitable.
asrrin29Feb 9, 2012
Can someone explain to me how this is any different from direct P2P apps of yesteryear? how is this any different from Bearshare or Kazaa?
icwydFeb 9, 2012
Does this still allow the ISP to look at what is in the packet and determine what file is being downloaded or is it encrypted in some way?
Some ISPs do deep packet inspection and will terminate your account if caught downloading copyrighted material.
promethean93Feb 9, 2012
What we have here is a forced evolution of piracy. When napster was shut down it created that vacuum and it was soon filled with p2p systems. The MPAA is just kind of forcing programmers to evolve the free trade network.
zbeastFeb 8, 2012
The big trouble with this software is that not enough people are using it .
so it kind of limits the type of files you can find with it.
it's something I may keep around for a cold winters day.
but I'll keep my standard bittorrent client for day to day use.
serantingFeb 9, 2012
Interesting!
witney_in_memoryFeb 15, 2012
Which software?
g21networkFeb 14, 2012
interesting
syngericho25Feb 10, 2012
Consider me trying this out!
ownbusinessonlineFeb 9, 2012
What are they going to shut down? The millions computers around the world?
chordonblueFeb 8, 2012
Downloading it, but, no real description of how it deals with finding other users - and this has always been one of the biggest gaping holes in any of these kinds of systems. Having people 'volunteer' as 'superpeers' is fine, but then those are the people who will be targeted by the MAFIAA first...
The_SovereignFeb 8, 2012
I'll do it. I live in Canada. We get away with this s**t because:
1. The government explicitly doesn't care and;
2. It's legal with regards to music anyway.
n4tune8Feb 9, 2012
Talk to Michael Geist about that... he might not totally agree with you.
The_SovereignFeb 9, 2012
You should be more specific. I've read plenty of his posts and can't imagine what you're referencing. Both of my points are true.
chordonblueFeb 8, 2012
The other issue I see is torrent poisoning. If this gets popular enough, the media companies will use that helpful renaming/description feature to obfusticate things. So far, so good though (been using it for a few hours now).
josh53188Feb 9, 2012
It did say in the article that there were trusted channels where liked content would be set higher in the search queues. I hope they would have a system in place to not allow certain users to attack the ratings. Like what Yelp does.
nasirmughalFeb 9, 2012
http://greensgallary.blogspot.com/2012/02/jihad-industry.html
udumanhomeFeb 9, 2012
http://udumans.blogspot.com/2012/02/thats-actaually-true.html
True true