![]() That made for an extremely efficient distribution method. The result is that if a million people hold a file, the swarm could be of the million users and a downloader would receive a millionth of the file from each. However, once the first downloader has his segment, he then offers that up to the swarm and the second downloader then has two options to download that that specific segment (the original user or the first downloader). The initial strain on the user holding the file would be the same. So, for example, if ten people wanted a file from a single user, the first downloader might start with the beginning of the file, the second with the end of the file and so on. ![]() Instead of users downloading a file from a single source server, the BitTorrent protocol allowed users to form a “swarm” of hosts to download and upload from each other simultaneously. BitTorrent was revolutionary in the sense that it changed that. Despite their then being more than one user who possesses the file, any further downloaders would still each download it from beginning to end from just one of the users. If lots of users wanted to download a file held by one sole location, all of them would begin downloading that file from beginning to end from that one user. Prior to BitTorrent, files would generally simply be distributed in whole from one user to another. However, it does appear that there are some flaws with the idea. It is stated that the use of this system would improve the delivery and security of the data within the parameters of its ownership. The perceived advantage is that peer to peer file sharing technology allows for control and retention of information being retained by the people who created and owned it without the need to be reliant upon a technology company maintaining its storage facility. Whilst they have marketed BitTorrent clients and BitTorrent Live (involving television broadcastsing via the internet), it is BitTorrent Sync that may prove the most popular.īitTorrent Sync is being marketed as an entity that at last provides a lawful and profitable way of operating electronically without a reliance on servers, in order tominimise the risk of information and data to be hacked by either government agencies, organised criminal groups or corporate competitors. In 2004, Cohen and a fellow programmer called Ashwin Navin set up a company called BitTorrent Inc, in an apparent attempt to monetise the software protocol that he had developed. The BitTorrent transfer protocol was developed in 2001 by an American programmer called Bram Cohen. It is suggested that BitTorrent is relaunching and rebranding itself as a bastion of secure electronic transference and storage of data for individuals, companies and major public entities. One of the most unusual spin offs from the scandal surrounding the electronic spying controversy involving the US National Security Agency and GCHQ is the re-emergence of a file-sharing protocol that has laboured under the stigma of piracy for many years. BitTorrent Bites Back – is BitTorrent Sync as good as the original? Posted on 25 February 2014
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