Maszman Speaks!

The Bit­Tor­rent P2P pro­to­col is the de facto stan­dard for shar­ing large files. It works by break­ing up files into small pieces that indi­vid­u­ally down­load­able. When you’re down­load­ing, pieces can come from many dif­fer­ent hosts, which can make down­loads fairly fast. In addi­tion, once you have some pieces of the file, you can begin upload­ing them to other Bit­Tor­rent users. It is accepted prac­tice to upload as much (or more) than you down­load. But Wired is report­ing that two new Bit­Tor­rent clients break that prac­tice in oder to speed up down­loads. If they catch on, it will likely cause Bit­Tor­rent to quickly fall out of favor.

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