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http://voxefx.blogspot.com [VoxEfx] BitTorrent speeds internet file transfers by shifting the bandwidth burden off the publisher, and distributing it among users downloading the file: Everyone downloading a file over BitTorrent is unobtrusively uploading it to other users at the same time so that large, popular files actually move at a faster rate than obscure ones."

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Barbara Feldman: Welcome to my Office[Barbara Feldman: Welcome to my Office] Torrents and Bit Torrent: BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) software tool that distributes download bandwidth among those who are downloading. The problem with offering large files from your website is that a surge in traffic can crash your web server.

[Darknet] Piracy is good?: Based on my own research, I have found television downloading to be widespread among men 18 to 25 years old, precisely the demographic most coveted by advertisers. In other words, the prime audience is already there, already waiting and already willing to receive.

http://greylodge.org/gpc [http://greylodge.org/gpc] Piracy Is Good?: by Mark Pesce Download (.torrent) the live presentation of “Piracy Is Good?”, delivered by Mark Pesce*... need BitTorrent to download) * Mark Pesce is the co-creator of the Virtual Reality Modeling...

En.wikipedia.orghttp://en.wikipedia.org [En.wikipedia.org] BitTorrent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The method used by BitTorrent to distribute files parallels to a large extent the one used by the eDonkey2000 network, but nodes in eDonkey's file sharing network usuallyshare and download a much larger number of files, making the bandwidth available to each transfer much smaller. BitTorrenttransfers are typically very fast, because all nodes in a group concentrate on transferring a single file or collection of files.While the original eDonkey2000 client provided little "leech resistance", most new clients have some sort of system to encourageuploaders.

Answers.comhttp://www.answers.com [Answers.com] BitTorrent: Information From Answers.com: BitTorrent can also be used for legal purposes by software developers who want to ease the bandwidth strain on their servers.If a developer offers a large file for download, the bandwidth limit of their server may be exceeded if a large number of peopledownload the file. By offering the file via BitTorrent, they transfer much of the bandwidth burden to downloaders of the file.For example, the demo of the flight sim X-Plane isoffered via BitTorrent, as well as the World of Warcraft beta and its patches.

http://susanmernit.blogspot.com [Susanmernit.blogspot.com] Susan Mernit's Blog: Mark Pesce on BitTorrent: Writing and news about digital media, ecommerce, strategy, RSS/Syndication, blogs, search, online classifieds, publishing and pop culture from a consultant, writer, and sometime entrepreneur.Contact me at smernit at aol dot com or mernit at gmail dot com. For more on my consulting work, see smernit.blogspot.com.

Wired.comhttp://www.wired.com [Wired.com] Wired News: Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool: A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season's hottest tech fads -- RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing -- to create a cheap publishing system for what its author calls "big media objects." The hybrid system is meant to eliminate both the publisher's need for fat bandwidth, and the consumer's need to wait through a grueling download.

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