Earth: Mostly Harmless

Take that, xxAA!

May 20, 2005 on 1:54 pm |
Categories: general, law, copyright and drm, open source, technology
Tags: bittorrent, bram-cohen, general, law, open source, p2p, peer-to-peer, slashdot, technology, tracker, trackerless

One Torrent to bind them, one Torrent to rule them all!

Bram Cohen has posted a beta of a trackerless BitTorrent client. Once it goes final it’s expected to make the MPAA, BSA and RIAA’s elaborate game of litegation Whack-a-Mole even more difficult, as noted by ZDNet Australia. As well as that, it should speed things up, presuming that torrent files will now get wider distribution and swarms will become bigger. Here’s Slashdot’s lowdown:

Trackerless BitTorrent Beta Posted:

jgarzik writes “BitTorrent development is occuring at a furious pace. At the beginning of May, an Azureus update added distributed tracker and database features. Yesterday, Bram updated BitTorrent to include support for trackerless torrents in the new BitTorrent 4.10 beta.”

(Via Slashdot.)