BitTorrent Turns 10 203
ktetch-pirate writes "On this day, 10 years ago, Bram Cohen released the first bittorrent client to the public. Most P2P protocols have had a rapid rise and then a drop-off as the subsequent 'best thing' has come out, but after 10 years, nothing has bested bittorrent, and it still remains king of the P2P castle. Just when will it be replaced?"
Re:File size range (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Pretty much never? (Score:5, Informative)
Nowadays there is such thing as "trackerless torrents". No idea how it works, but it works.
It uses a technique known as a Kademlia Distributed Hash Table [wikipedia.org] (DHT). It's a rather tricky algorithm, which turns out to work beautifully for this particular application.
--jch
Re:Share ratio requirements (Score:5, Informative)
The thing is, this situation is a rare occurrence for most users, and most will be able to seed greater than 1 most of the time. In my experience, the number of torrents you can comfortably seed greater than 1 dwarfs those that you can't. While I have found torrents on private trackers to be typically very well seeded, often to the point of saturation, I've never had a problem maintaining a positive ratio and I usually don't seed more than a day or two.
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