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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Bittorrent
There's an excellent article in Wired on Bittorrent, the program used for downloading content over the Internet. Most Internet providers allow users to download at a much higher rate than for uploading. Bittorent gets around this bottleneck for shared content by spliting it into many parts on many computers. When a file is requested, each part is uploaded slowly from many computers, which results in a fast download to a single computer. It could be the wave of the future.
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