Tribler: Decentralized BitTorrent Client

Started by Mr. Analog, October 28, 2008, 01:05:29 PM

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Mr. Analog

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Quote"The Tribler BitTorrent client, a project run by researchers from several European universities and Harvard, is the first to incorporate decentralized search capabilities. With Tribler, users can now find .torrent files that are hosted among other peers, instead of on a centralized site such as The Pirate Bay or Mininova. The Tribler developers have found a way to make their client work, without having to rely on BitTorrent sites. Although others have tried to come up with similar solutions, such as the Cubit plugin for Vuze, Tribler is the first to understand that with decentralized BitTorrent search, there also has to be a way to moderate these decentralized torrents in order to avoid a flood of spam."

Link to Tribler article on TorrentFreak:
http://torrentfreak.com/tribler-set-to-make-bittorrent-sites-obsolete-081028

Link to Slashdot Article:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/28/1722214

Link to the Cubit Plug-In for Vuze:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/23/1514255&tid=230

Sounds interesting to me, especially since some of the torrents I try to grab off TBP are often low seeds, perhaps this could find other seeds outside the TPB host.
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