One of BitTorrent’s most senior pirates speaks out in an in interview for a German blog and what he has to say may cause some concern over at BitTorrent Inc.
In Berlin to check out the Oil of the 21st Century conference this past weekend, Brokep over at The Pirate Bay was interviewed by the German blog Netzpolitik.org about his thoughts on the past, present, and future of the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site.
It is admittedly a slow at first, but about 11:40 in it gets quite interesting. When asked to discuss his vision for the future of the Pirate Bay, Brokep said he it will continue to “…still grow for a couple of months or maybe a year,” but that he doesn’t “…think that Bittorrent as a protocol will survive much longer.”
Not around much longer? Yep, you heard it right. Brokep explained that The Pirate Bay is currently working to replace BitTorrent with a new protocol of its own.
There are apparently several reasons for the decision and none of them have anything to do with Swedish world domination. The first is is that BitTorrent Inc. recently decided to close the source of some newer additions of the BitTorrent protocol
“The biggest problem is that it’s owned by the Bittorrent company, which develops new versions of it,” Brokep said in the interview. “So we don’t have any input as users to say what we want in the protocol. And Bittorrent is funded by companies which we don’t necessarily like as well.”
The second reason is that wants to develop a protocol that finally deals with the increasing influx of anti-piracy organizations, spammers, and other riff raff to the BitTorrent scene.
He writes:
Running TPB, I’ve been thinking a lot of how to make the content cleaner for the end user. Spam-blocking, fake-blocking, and being able to clean file-names in bundles is a big thing that I would like to see more of in the new protocol.
Brokep would also like to see redundancy in uploaded content taken care of as well, something I’m sure the former MODs at OiNK would liked to have had at their disposal instead of having to post endless “dupe” warnings.
Brokep continues:
Also having the same content from several uploaders is something we see a lot of, as well as on most of the other major trackers, so being able to share peers between trackers and between users with the same files in different bundles on the same trackers (through hash search services) would really increase download speed and availability.
Brokep realizes that’s a big gamble, but he thinks that’s it’s a necessary one. “So if our new protocol works,” he says “we will be one of the big websites still. If it doesn’t, maybe someone else takes over.”
Moreover, Brokep says “..to compare with torrents instead of having a complicated encoded file, we simply have a ‘.p2p’ file that is a bzip2ed file in XML format which contains a list of files in the bundle.”
“This would also make all files have file-hashes which will make it even harder for fakers and spammers,” he said.
The Pirate Bay crew supposedly already developed a working client, but an initial release isn’t expected until sometime early next year.
NetzpolitikTV 026: The Pirate Bay!
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wait what?
back on topic: i dont think that torrents are going to die any time soon. they are too good to just quickly bite the dust because something similar but better emerges. best case scenario i could see a spit 50-50 between Pirate Protocol and Bit Torrent. most likely we would see the continued use of BT for legit services while PP gets used for sites like demonoid and pirate bay.
I’m glad someone is finally looking at making a competing network. Too many are shutting down and having new networks appart from bittorrent will only strengthen the Filesharing grip. Especially one with privacy in mind.
This gives me a tingly feeling inside; either that or my dinner salad was contaminated with e-coli. Anyway I hope this protocol is successful hell I hope that its also more efficient then Bittorrent that way people would migrate to it faster. Then again it might be a flop in which case I’ll keep using Bittorrent. Only good things can come of this.
Go TPB!! I don’t care if they switch to a different format. They’re a huge public tracker and they have their own unique issues to deal with. Their new protocol and bittorrent could coexist too.
just dont upgrade bittorent client stay under version 5.0 they cant force the oldest version to upgrading. so i dont think bittorent is “dead”. ANd i dont think that they can “force” you to use the latest “close” version.
exeem….*Cough*…flop *cough*…we have been here before
@moneoa:
compared with suprnova.org TPB is a Group wich realy do what they promiss.
But as always time will tell.Happy Halloween to you all!
I don’t know if it would be succesfull but it’s in the right hands .
As with all p2p technologies the success will depend on the users . And that will depend on the clients that are written for it .
The biggest problem is that people won’t go from a feature rich bt client like Azureus to a less feature rich Pirate Protocol Client .
The best thing would be if they start incorperating both technologies in 1 client for instance that Azureus would support both BT and PP . They will only do that if they think it’s worth it though .
It’s worth the try . If it becomes nothing we will probably learn something from it .
The Bittorent protocol has been around for a very long tim and that is it’s problem. Some websites like Piratebay have tried to overcome the cropped and fake issue at great risks to themselves. To pike up the venerable piratebay skull makes that user the target of the year for the RIAA. as the Bittorent protocol is having its open source slowly revoked by the owners a new type of P2P protocol is very much needed.