Comparing to manual download, BitTorrent is incredible in particular things. In manual download, the process is getting slower when there are more users who download particular file together. In the contrary, using BitTorrent is faster when there are active more users downloading same files together.
Getting faster by adding more users is possible using BiTorrent because users don’t depend on single server. Users don’t download file on same source, but they are supporting each other. When a user has downloaded a part of particular file, he then uploads it to another user and next user do the same process in chain. Users are working together, so more users will result in more speeds. So, the term file sharing is more correct than download. See following animated image for more detailed process.Usually I take BitTorrent files in The Pirate Bay and run them in Bittorrent client. I currently use a BitTorrent client, µtorrent, and it gives incredible speeds. This is a freeware and famous for its small size and stable performance.
Currently, BitTorrent is blamed for copyright infringement and becomes a medium to express anti-copyright movement. The Pirate Bay, a Swedish website that indexes and tracks BitTorrent (.torrent) files. was sued, accused facilitating infringement. By the way, I am not a supporter of copyright, so I just enjoy this BitTorrent.
2 comments:
this article was informative. if it was written in 2006.
For me it is not informative too, absolutely not new. But I do see people around me who don't even know what is BitTorrent.
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