BitTorrent - a new way
to share and download filesI'm sure this isn't news to some of you. For
the rest, I'll just say, this is very cool! File sharing networks
are a hazardous place to get your files. The worst part about them is the
fact that someone could be tracking your uploads and downloads. BitTorrent
downloads are different. It might be possible to track you if you use
BitTorrent but it sure wouldn't be easy. It works because you are
getting the file from many different PC's at once and those PC's are owned
by people just like you and me. The more popular a file is, the faster it
will download to you.
Quote from the website - You have something terrific to publish
-- a large music or video file, software, a game or anything else that
many people would like to have. But the more popular your file becomes,
the more you are punished by soaring bandwidth costs. If your file becomes
phenomenally successful and a flash crowd of hundreds or thousands try to
get it at once, your server simply crashes and no one gets it.
There is a solution to this vicious cycle. BitTorrent,
the result of over two years of intensive development, is a simple and
free software product that addresses all of these
problems.