BitTorrent goes "Trackerless"

[WhiteZero]

From BitTorrent.com

As part of our ongoing efforts to make publishing files on the Web painless and disruptively cheap, BitTorrent has released a 'trackerless' version of BitTorrent in a new release.

Suppose you bought a television station, you could broadcast your progamming to everyone in a 50 mile radius. Now suppose the population of your town tripled. How much more does it cost you to broadcast to 3 times as many people? Nothing. The same is not true of the Web. If you own a website and you publish your latest video on it, as popularity increases, so does your bandwidth bill! Sometimes by a lot! However, thanks to BitTorrent the website owner gets almost near-broadcast economics on the web by harnessing the unused upstream bandwidth of his/her users.

In prior versions of BitTorrent, publishing was a 3 step process. You would:

1. Create a ".torrent" file -- a summary of your file which you can put on your blog or website
2. Create a "tracker" for that file on your webserver so that your downloaders can find each other
3. Create a "seed" copy of your download so that your first downloader has a place to download from

Many of you have blogs and websites, but dont have the resources to set up a tracker. In the new version, we've created an optional 'trackerless' method of publication. Anyone with a website and an Internet connection can host a BitTorrent download!

While it is called trackerless, in practice it makes every client a lightweight tracker. A clever protocol, based on a Kademlia distributed hash table or "DHT", allows clients to efficiently store and retrieve contact information for peers in a torrent.

When generating a torrent, you can choose to utilize the trackerless system or a traditional dedicated tracker. A dedicated tracker allows you to collect statistics about downloads and gives you a measure of control over the reliability of downloads. The trackerless system makes no guarantees to reliability but requires no resources of the publisher. The trackerless system is not consulted when downloading a traditionally tracked torrent.

Although still in Beta release, the trackerless version of BitTorrent, and the latest production version are available at http://www.bittorrent.com/

Also, DHT (Distributed Hash Table) = Trackerless

My favorite BitTorrent Client, BitComet, has already released an update that supports Trackerless torrents as well. :thumbs:
Currently in a file I'm downloading the average seeder:leecher ratio is about 1:150 which means with downloaders exceeding 10,000 on a single torrent, the trackers can't handle all of the connections. However, as soon as I got the "Tackerless" supported version of BitComet, I almost immediatly got a solid connection to the torrent and started downloading.

BitTorrent is evoloving finaly. All rejoyce!
:rolling:

EDIT: Thanks for restoring my original post.

 

[The Monkey]

Sounds neat.

 

[SimonomiS]

Piracy talk is verboten here.
Which means, hurrah, this will be very useful for transferring completely legal things via BT.

Never had a problem with trackers myself, but I guess progress is progress.

 

[baron insig]

i manged to deld one thing from BT and now i cant get nething else doesnt work :S

 

[Ames]

Guy who made BitTorrent went to my school.

 

[evil^milk]

Did he perform ninja moves?

 

[Fat Tony!]

pff bitTorrent I mean a simple p2p software for getting a few small ish files is acceptable but I don't aprove of warez shame on you!

 

[oldagerocker]

This sounds really good, when my client cant find a tracker you can still download the file, but only if enough people you're connected to has the whole thing and even then the speed seems to be reduced allot.

 

[xLostx]

leetz0r but I still rather limewire

 

[Shodan]

Guy who made BitTorrent went to my school.

Thats pretty cool, didn't Bram Cohen work on steam?

 

[Yuri]

Guy who made BitTorrent went to my school.

Jesus, Shens, is your school Mount Olympus or some shit?

My friend talked to that dude, though. He's crazy.

And now I am happy for no trackerness. <3

 

[WhiteZero]

leetz0r but I still rather limewire

Limewire is superior for downloading songs... but thats about it.
When it comes to larger files, I prefer eMule or BitTorrent.

 

[StardogChampion]

So what are some nice clients to use? I'm using TorrentStorm right now (IMO by far the best), but the guy has decided to stop making any more updates.

 

[ComradeBadger]

I rather like BitTornado...

 

[jondy]

I rather like BitTornado...

Simple= teh sex

 

[15357]

Jesus, Shens, is your school Mount Olympus or some shit?

My friend talked to that dude, though. He's crazy.

And now I am happy for no trackerness. <3

He has a Destroy Capitalism sticker on his moniter. :|

 

[WhiteZero]

So what are some nice clients to use? I'm using TorrentStorm right now (IMO by far the best), but the guy has decided to stop making any more updates.

BitComet all the way.
However, your going to find that everyone claims that their favorite BitTorrent Client gets better speeds than all the others. Don't let this suade your choice. I'd suggest checking out multiple clients to find your nitch.

 

[P_ 2 t3h Jizzle]

w00t! Now it makes it harder for the feds to track my loli-catgirl torrents


WIN

 

[Fat Tony!]

^
Lol bann0red! Munro owned!

 

[Gargantou]

I've seen "trackers" being "tracked" down and sued for seeding certain files, like SW ROTS, doesn't this possibly mean that it'd make it EASIER for the people who track down people who share "certain" files to track us private users of BT?

 

[StardogChampion]

I've seen "trackers" being "tracked" down and sued for seeding certain files, like SW ROTS, doesn't this possibly mean that it'd make it EASIER for the people who track down people who share "certain" files to track us private users of BT?

It's not like it's hard to track who's downloading a file anyway. Normally you just go to the Connections tab in whatever client you're using and it has loads of IP's of the people that are downloading/uploading.