The History of BitTorrent
When it comes to the Internet today, torrents (or BitTorrent actually) may ring up a feeling of “illegality”. Even though torrents are used for legal purposes too but still due to larger amount of files being shared using torrents being illegal, torrents has become synonymous with illegal downloads. BitTorrent amount to about one-third of the whole Internet traffic. Even though many of us use torrent so much, we really don’t know about its history, it’s creators. Let’s check it out:
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Nice to know the bittorrent history! Getting bored after learning school history, reading this was nice!
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Bored of school history…well…history has been my favorite subject. Does not matter about what. History has been Quite fascinating
Detailed info for me. I have a question – Is sharing (Uploading/Downloading) any copyright file using this P2P protocol is legal or illegal?
If you are sharing copyrighted file than it is illegal and if you are sharing open source and free files then it is legal. Bit Torrent is just a protocol.
Great article.So glad to know about bittorrent history.
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Thanks for visiting Lakhyajyoti
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Saw the infographic on Mozy.com the other day. Great, isn’t it?
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Yup man, it is quite cool. Our pleasant history
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THANKS!It is so interesting!
Glad to know you like it. Thanks for the comment
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Interesting bit of history you got there about bit torrent. It’s nice how it looks chic and interactive too. A break from all the winding reads. Pretty cool.
Good to know you like it Michelle
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Interesting history. I’ve been using utorrent for quite some time now.
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Yes I too use utorrent
Great software is not it?
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Awesome post. I didn’t know the torrents are used that much that they consume one third of world wide traffic!
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Yup they do mate….actually somewhat more than 1/3rd about 40% or something
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Aweosme Infographic for bittorrent.
Doesnt uTorrent works on same protocol?
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Well yes, all the torrents work on the same Bit Torrent Protocol. Thanks for visiting and commenting mate
My pleasure, Shiva.
apart this , bittorrent is also responsible for 70% online piracy
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Well yes you are right, bit torrent is pretty much responsible for piracy even though it’s introduction had good motives
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Torrents is cool way for sharing files, however many do it illegally. Companies like blizzard should know that many of their premium users got first an illegal copy of their games to later buy them for multiplayer. I am not supporting piracy, but sometimes is so hard buying something without knowing how they gonna work.
Funny thing that torrent sites are one of the most populars in the world. Sad that some antiviruses as AVG warns the user tagging sites such as piratebay as harmful for computers when they are not.
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Update: BitTorrent is going to be facing the wrath of google!
I;ve read google is taking our bitTorrent instant search results. Wonder how this is going to affect the company.