chancy
30th December 2014, 23:19
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Another interesting piece of info for everyone!
Happy New Year to ALL
chancy
Tribler: http://www.tribler.org/
Link:
http://www.businessinsider.com/delft-university-of-technology-researchers-create-tribler-torrent-client-2014-12
Article:
Now There's A Torrent Network That Could Be Impossible For Police To Shut Down
Dec. 19, 2014, 8:44 AM
Researchers from Delft University of Technology have unveiled a new torrent client that they claim is "impossible to shut down," TorrentFreak reports.
BitTorrent is the internet file-sharing technology that virtually all illegal file-sharing sites use to let people download stolen movies and music. It works by distributing the download of a file between lots of computers, meaning that no single server hosts all of the content.
The way BitTorrent works at the moment might sound like the perfect way to shares files online, but it's actually vulnerable to police raids and and websites being seized. There are two parts to downloading a torrent file: Browsing a torrent site to find what you want, and then using a torrent client to download the file. If a torrent site goes down, then no matter how distributed the download network is, people are still going to have problems downloading content.
On December 9, The Pirate Bay was taken offline after a police raid in Stockholm. Despite being one of the biggest file-sharing sites on the internet, it was still vulnerable to something as simple as a police raid on the location where it hosts part of its servers.
As TorrentFreak reports, university researchers have developed a new kind of torrent client that is, in theory, impossible to take offline. Tribler, as it's called, is a torrent client, a program used to download files. But what's different about it is that it doesn't need to connect to a website to search for files: It all takes place within the program.
Another interesting piece of info for everyone!
Happy New Year to ALL
chancy
Tribler: http://www.tribler.org/
Link:
http://www.businessinsider.com/delft-university-of-technology-researchers-create-tribler-torrent-client-2014-12
Article:
Now There's A Torrent Network That Could Be Impossible For Police To Shut Down
Dec. 19, 2014, 8:44 AM
Researchers from Delft University of Technology have unveiled a new torrent client that they claim is "impossible to shut down," TorrentFreak reports.
BitTorrent is the internet file-sharing technology that virtually all illegal file-sharing sites use to let people download stolen movies and music. It works by distributing the download of a file between lots of computers, meaning that no single server hosts all of the content.
The way BitTorrent works at the moment might sound like the perfect way to shares files online, but it's actually vulnerable to police raids and and websites being seized. There are two parts to downloading a torrent file: Browsing a torrent site to find what you want, and then using a torrent client to download the file. If a torrent site goes down, then no matter how distributed the download network is, people are still going to have problems downloading content.
On December 9, The Pirate Bay was taken offline after a police raid in Stockholm. Despite being one of the biggest file-sharing sites on the internet, it was still vulnerable to something as simple as a police raid on the location where it hosts part of its servers.
As TorrentFreak reports, university researchers have developed a new kind of torrent client that is, in theory, impossible to take offline. Tribler, as it's called, is a torrent client, a program used to download files. But what's different about it is that it doesn't need to connect to a website to search for files: It all takes place within the program.