The fastest growing star in the exploding file sharing scene maybe Bit Torrent. It has become very popular in the Emule/ED2K community, and IRC community especially. Bit Torrent was originally intended to be a replacement for IRC file servers. Bit Torrent is much more efficient because as soon as a downloader on Bit Torrent gets a chunk of a file they become a server for the file. While not having all of the file, they share the chunks they have received. Unlike popular peer to peer king Kazaa, where a user does not share the file until they have it complete. The problem with that is many people will often remove the file from sharing as soon as it completes, or don’t share any files at all. With Bit Torrent, users are forced to share, at least until they have completed their download.
This makes Bit Torrent most similar to the popular Emule/Edonkey/Overnet file sharing clients. However for the most part you download one file at a time with Bit Torrent so all your bandwidth, both your upstream, and downstream goes towards that one files. Where when using Emule most users download many files at a time, splitting up their bandwidth between them. Also P2PForums has found that Bit Torrent just seems to be a bit faster then the clients for the ED2K network. We suspect the reason behind this is the code under the hood.
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