Trackerless BitTorrent Beta Posted

jgarzik writes "BitTorrent development is occuring at a furious pace. At the beginning of May, an Azureus update added distributed tracker and database features. Yesterday, Bram updated BitTorrent to include support for trackerless torrents in the new BitTorrent 4.10 beta."

Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

[autophile]

See you in Guantanamo, "Bram".

Damn it!

[Anonymous Coward]

I hate it when I squeeze harder and things start to slip through my fingers.

Hmm...

[conchobar0928]

Is it just a coincidence that this enhancement has come the day before the new Star Wars movie?

Re:How

[blixel]

how can you connect to a torrent download if you don't know where to start? Isn't the starting point the same as a tracker?

There's an A-end and a B-end seperated by some amount of time. Say 1 minute. At the A-end, you start your search for the torrent. The search continues for 60 seconds until the torrent is found at the B-end. The torrent data is then loaded at the B-end which is picked back up at the A-end 60 seconds prior. From your perspective, it happens instantly.

The searches are also modular in design. So you can actually include a second search at the B-end. So at the A-end, you might actually get back a second result for something you didn't even know you searched for.

Don't worry about the noise in the attic. It's just birds.

Re:Diluting its strengths?

[F13]

Is it legal to post only in questions?

Yes, Yes it is. The Independent Thought Police have been dispatched.

Have a nice day.

Mod parent UP!

[cpghost]

See you in Guantanamo, "Bram".

Didn't you get the joke, mods?

Re:Damn it!

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to subpoena a teenager is insignificant next to the power of the MPAA.

Damn it! K-Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

"I hate it when I squeeze harder and things start to slip through my fingers."

Let's leave your sex life out of this.

Re:How

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a parabolic thing, and the bath of mercury is just for showing off.

Re:Hmm...

[ErikTheRed]

Is it just a coincidence that this enhancement has come the day before the new Star Wars movie?

I sense a great disturbance in the force... as if George Lucas' bank account cried out in terror... and then... silence.

Either that, or I just have a headache.

How the new Trackerless Protocol works

[Anonymous Coward]

The new Bittorrent protocol was designed by the same developers who designed the original TCP/IP protocol in the 70s. But this new protocol has a decidedly "edgy" feel to it. Below is the "handshaking" procedure. There are a few similarities between it and SMTP:

client1: gimme the warez
client2: who's askin'?
client1: me, mutherfucka
client2: well, your story checks out - here's da shit.

I know what you're thinking - how will they handle flow control? The trackerless developers also thought of that:

client1: the shit's comin' slow - speed it up
client2: get off my back, bitch
client1: don't make me bust a cap in yo' ass!
client2: all aight, all aight... sheee-it.

Re:So...Idle Hands are...

[Jeremi]

It's like the VCR, guns, or deep fryers. They can all be used for good or for evil.

Hmm. How does one use a deep fryer for evil? Open a KFC?

I, for one...

[andy55]

I, for one, welcome our new pirate overlords.

Re:So...Idle Hands are...

[Austerity Empowers]

anything you make in a deep fryer tastes so good it MUST be evil

Re:How

[masklinn]

You click on the Internet icon on the desktop.
You can also go to Wallmart and ask them if they could put the internet on your floppy disk (warning: you need a floppy disk)

Re:Damn it!

[TheStupidOne]

That's no tracker, it's a client!!!

Re:So...Idle Hands are...

[error406]

"People have lives OTHER than charity, as your presence here proves." Somebody's presence on Slashdot proves they have a live?!?

Re:Damn it!

[LordLucless]

The ability to subpoena a teenager is insignificant next to the power of the MPAA

Your sad devotion to that ancient business method has not helped you conjure up the stolen music, or given you clairvoyance enough to tell the difference between a technophobic grandmother and a music pirate.

Re:I fucked your mother

[GraemeDonaldson]

Go home dad, you're drunk again.

Re:So...Idle Hands are...

[mgv]

True anonymous p2p filesharing will never be possible - it is ALWAYS possible to find out who you are downloading from. Accept it.

I would have thought that is what your zombie window intermediary is for.

Michael

Re:How the new Trackerless Protocol works

[Anonymous Coward]

relax, frances.

Re:So...Idle Hands are...

[Jace of Fuse!]

Hmm. How does one use a deep fryer for evil? Open a KFC?

Oh what? Like YOU'VE never heard of a deep fried a baby. Sure, sure. All of those KFC and and french-fry lovers like to stand up and say that a ban would be against their best interests, but even they know the primary reason people get deep fryers is for cooking babies.

Re:So...Idle Hands are...

[brainburger]

Keep trying this link, you never know! http://search.ebay.com/sense-of-irony_W0QQfkrZ1QQf romZR8/ [ebay.com]

Re:So...Idle Hands are...

[Anonymous Coward]

Recipe for evil:
Insert one human/family pet into deep frier.

Re:Losing Centralized tracker is not good

[fastfinge]

You left out the all important super tracker tracker. We obviously need a super tracker tracker to track the super trackers that are tracking the trackers. Are you keeping track of all this?

Re:So...Idle Hands are...

[npsimons]

Hmm. How does one use a deep fryer for evil? Open a KFC?

Ever seen someone's hand deep fried? Sure, it's not pleasant if it's *your* hand. But it's finger licking good . . .

Triple viewership would require more power

[Anonymous Coward]

Begin Nitpick

I forget the numbers but yes each receiver draws a certain amount of power from the propagated signal. Crystal radio kits demonstrate this principal. So you would have to up your power if your viewership tripled and you wanted your signal strength to remain the same.

Re:So...Idle Hands are...

[JabberWokky]

Where do I get a human pet?

You're new to the internet, aren't you?

Furry, ponygirl/boy, gorean slave, take your pick. There are local and global, commercial and community supported forums dedicated just to finding human pets.

--
Evan

Re:P2P !=guns

[bluephone]

I'm actually one of those folks who wants handgun control too, but I still want my army to have the biggest and best guns around. I want my police force to have them too. And if I ever get trapped in a high-rise building being taken over by german terrorists, or wind up in a scientific lab on Mars being invaded by demons from Hell, I want a gun then, too.

I probably should have use a different noun there, but the point still stands.