Bit Torrent Popularity Climbs

re: Bit Torrent Popularity Climbs

graham — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:46:44 GMT

I don't think that each new filesharing protocol was spawned by the demise of the previous champion, but rather its popularity was.

If torrenting is eliminated the next decentralized, multi-proxy-hopping, secure and scrambled option won't be more than a week or too away.

The media companies are swimming upstream, and each new fileshare technique is a major interruption - Napster was a small dam, and torrenting (or its successor) will be Niagara.

re: Bit Torrent Popularity Climbs

triga — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:26:51 GMT

P2P networks are for bottom feeders and I am actually glad they are nearing obsolescence (sp?). They are festering pools for viruses, malware and are inhabited by teenagers and their mothers who dont know any better. Unfortunately public torrent trackers (yes, ALL four of the ones mentioned above) are in nearly the same state. There is no assurance of quality group releases or non-malicious files and download speeds are abysmal. Even non-mainstream filesharing methods like IRC have their inherent dangers. The only haven in the torrent world are private sites/trackers where standards are in place to control the quality of the shared files (only official group releases), download speeds and download ratios.

Fortunately, most of these private trackers have closed their doors, so early adopters (like yours truly) have a haven from the inevitable mess created by the mainstream users.

I say, let the masses live in their messes. For early adopters like us there will always be better alternatives. Torrent technology has already been replaced. Owner Free Filesystem, Google it!

re: Bit Torrent Popularity Climbs

xntrk — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:28:54 GMT

File sharing, in all its anonymously masked and pseudo-prominent naming convension glory will never die as long as there is a computer, a user, an network connection and a need to "have" without coming out of pocket.

Naptster was the gold fish in a pond of guppies and now that a couple of new and grown up versions of the same specie has infultrated the network, it's only a matter of time user will migrate to places of substantially less hype and more media saturation. As much as this is media related, natural instinct kicks in and we as users just 'Keep on keepin' on" just to survive. The media feeds the fuel to the fire until it burns itself out and the next incarnation of the same steel is forged. Technological evolution - plain and simple.

re: Bit Torrent Popularity Climbs

Wayde — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:45:19 GMT

Here here Triga. P2P is lame! I don't waste my time.

Yeah, I used P2P. It was like 2000 and the World Trade Center was still standing, Cher was making a comeback and you had to download MP3s from Napster to avoid being made ill by Ricky Martin and N Sync all over the radio.

re: Bit Torrent Popularity Climbs

Brando — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:52:04 GMT

Don't be fooled, Wayde loves N'Sync.

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