bittorrent

Their capacity to upload copies of Windows 10 is not infinite (though only because they have chosen not to distribute via BitTorrent).

When I use p2p program, be it some chat system or bittorrent, I make the choice to use it.

I would actually put money on most of those UDP rate limits being in place because of uTP Bittorrent traffic.

Sure, but an overwhelming part of file sharing still takes place under BitTorrent, with the web just being a glorified link farm for it.

P2P filesharing wasn't a terrible idea at all, and BitTorrent is evidence.

Early versions of the Blizzard downloader actually were Bittorrent clients.

The Transmission bittorrent client is perhaps a better example, it has at least 4 mature front ends: gtk, qt, cli and os x.

Note that Emacs works very well with many network standards, like email, Usenet, IRC, RSS, even BitTorrent.

In fact, stuff like Bittorrent still works fine.

I remember when people thought BitTorrent would revolutionize file hosting.

The average geek playing with Linux doesn't complain about BitTorrent also uploading the distro image they're downloading, but the average geek playing with Linux knows the deal and decided voluntarily to participate.

Earlier this week, Prenda faced a new and serious allegation: that it had actually put some pornography on BitTorrent itself, intending for it to be downloaded so that it could start a campaign of lawsuits and threat letters.

Napster; Bittorrent; now adblocking.” my thoughts exactly.

"Hmm, the profile picture for this specific friend loaded suspiciously quickly.." A similar mistake is security updates over bittorrent: a real-time list of vulnerable hosts.

So when you start up Skype or Bittorrent, etc, it usually uses some tricks to figure out how people can contact you and advertises it.

Bittorrent is now widely used legitimately for distributing software updates.

It's a private information retrieval system, proposed by Sassaman (Mixmaster), Cohen (Bittorrent), and Nick Mathewson (Tor), that had a lot of interesting ideas about how to facilitate the anonymous retrieval of email.