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Re: BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

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Post by solomatov » Wed, May 13, 2015, 3:31 PM UTC

reymus wrote: post #69

solomatov wrote: post #14

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Completely agree with you. If they want it to be focused on privacy, they should at least document their protocol.

I dont understand. Could you explain why?

I don't trust a product which is closed source and closed protocol. It's ok to be closed source and closed protocol for a product which isn't focused on privacy, but for the product which is it's a showstopper.

Also, bittorrent did bait and switch with btsync, and had supplied utorrent with spyware. I just don't trust the company.

Re: BitTorrent Bleep Now Publicly Available Across All Major Platforms

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Post by gcb0 » Sun, May 17, 2015, 5:25 AM UTC

mike-cardwell wrote: post #66

gcb0 wrote: post #36

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it's bi bittorrent. you need a tracker. how do you think one client can find another? i hope you don't think it was a internet wide broadcast... :)

My understanding is that you don't need a tracker when using the DHT. I'm not sure what the bootstrap method is to find the initial peers to start accessing the DHT, but once you've found one peer, it's easy enough to find more. Feel free to correct me.

Thats nonsense. The clueless torrent news sites like to boast that you dont need a tracker for dht, just a 'bootstrap node'. Whick is exactly a tracker.

Its one simple node which address is hardcoded in the clients. So, it is a tracker, just not a full bittorrent tracker.

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