BitTorrent Chat Demystified

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Posted by timothy on Thursday June 30, 2011 @07:20PM from the like-chat-roulette-but-different dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Can you really do group chat with no central server? BitTorrent's Patrick Williams has developed a new app that leverages a distributed architecture to eliminate the need for any servers — even to host a buddy list. He says magnet links are the key."

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Magnet links (Score:5, Funny)

by jmitchel!jmitchel.co ( 254506 ) writes: on Thursday June 30, 2011 @07:25PM (#36629118)

Magnet links, how do they work?

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by wcoenen ( 1274706 ) writes: <wcoenen@gmail.com> on Thursday June 30, 2011 @08:24PM (#36629520)

Good old IRC isn't centralized either! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsplit [wikipedia.org]

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