Batu69 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Fifteen years ago a developer named Bram Cohen posted a short message online, announcing his new file-sharing tool BitTorrent. Three years later his protocol was responsible for a quarter of all Internet traffic, and now it helps people to share hundreds of petabytes of data per day. “My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order, check it out here,” Bram Cohen wrote on a Yahoo! message board on July 2, 2001. It was the first time a working copy of the BitTorrent code had been made available to the public, but the initial response wasn’t exactly overwhelming. “What’s BitTorrent, Bram?” was the sole reply he received on the board. Fast forward 15 years and BitTorrent has become one of the most prominent technologies of the current millennium. One that transformed the web and which is still hugely relevant today. When Cohen first announced his invention to the world, he could have never imagined that the technology would be used by hundreds of millions of people in the years that followed. He was simply trying to improve file transfers, by using people’s upload and download capacity simultaneously. “Fundamentally, I was trying to figure out how people on the Internet could utilize all the unused upstream bandwidth to make it faster to send huge files,” Bram Cohen told TorrentFreak, commenting on these early days. BitTorrent FAQ Cohen wrote in 2001 While the technology itself was the main focus for Cohen, the public quickly realized that BitTorrent opened the door to sharing huge files, which was very rare at the time. Since BitTorrent users download and upload at the same time, popular files are distributed more quickly. With other file-sharing technologies, distribution slows down. This idea was a major breakthrough at the time. Before then, it was virtually impossible for a regular Internet user to share a video with dozens of people, but torrents made it possible. As a result, BitTorrent soon became responsible for a quarter of all Internet traffic. As with many innovations on the web, porn fans were among the first to embrace the new technology in its full glory. Several of the early torrent sites were exclusively centered around adult content, and a torrent site without a porn category was rare. After a few months, torrent sites started popping up left and right, listing a wide range of content. This included perfectly legal Linux distros, but also pirated copies of The Matrix, Photoshop and the Spice Girls’ latest album. With the rise of sites such as The Pirate Bay, Mininova, isoHunt and KickassTorrents, torrents became a synonym for piracy among the broader public. However, the technology itself is “neutral” and used more broadly than most people realize. Twitter and Facebook also discovered the power of BitTorrent. Behind the scenes, it’s helping these tech giants distribute files across their servers faster and more efficiently than any other alternatives. And the opportunities don’t end there. BitTorrent Inc, the company Bram Cohen co-founded in 2004 has released various applications for the BitTorrent protocol over the past years. A “sync” tool that lets people run their private backup solution, for example, or a browser that serves webpages without the need for a central server. Cohen himself also worked hard on a live streaming implementation of BitTorrent. Although this hasn’t been adopted widely just yet, BitTorrent Inc. believes that it could power the future of online live news and entertainment. Whatever the future may look like, it is safe to say that with BitTorrent, Bram Cohen changed the lives of dozens of millions of people. Directly, by allowing people around the world to easily share large files without the need for a central server. But also indirectly, by being one of the great motivators for the entertainment industries to compete with piracy and offer their content online. If Bram hadn’t taken his invention public 15 years ago, the Internet may have looked very different today. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haxzion Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 This article brings back memories of much simpler times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 2 hours ago, haxzion said: This article brings back memories of much simpler times It reminds me of when you go to download something and catch a virus because back then they wrote virus for the fun of it... and it taking forever to just get on webpages with torrents . Most people in 2001 were still on the fasttrack network . P2P starting taking off about 3 years after it came out . The good old days was fasttrack when you didn't even need a browser to download stuff lol. Quote In July 2001, Napster was sued by several recording companies and lost in A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.. In the case of Napster, it has been ruled that an online service provider could not use the "transitory network transmission" safe harbor in the DMCA if they had control of the network with a server. Shortly after its loss in court, Napster was shut down to comply with a court order. This drove users to other P2P applications and file sharing continued its growth.[4] The Audiogalaxy Satellite client grew in popularity, and the LimeWire client and BitTorrent protocol were released. Until its decline in 2004, Kazaa was the most popular file sharing program despite bundled malware and legal battles in the Netherlands, Australia, and the United States. In 2002, a Tokyo district court ruling shut down File Rogue, and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit that effectively shut down Audiogalaxy. From 2002 through 2003, a number of BitTorrent services were established, including Suprnova.org, isoHunt, TorrentSpy, and The Pirate Bay. In 2002, the RIAA was filing lawsuits against Kazaa users. As a result of such lawsuits, many universities added file sharing regulations in their school administrative codes (though some students managed to circumvent them during after school hours). With the shutdown of eDonkey in 2005, eMule became the dominant client of the eDonkey network. In 2006, police raids took down the Razorback2 eDonkey server and temporarily took down The Pirate Bay. In 2009, the Pirate Bay trial ended in a guilty verdict for the primary founders of the tracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing People got sued before they used p2p even so i dont see how much has changed except for now we have private sites with nice clean files . Fasttrack was bundled with Adware , but you could find clean versions imesh lite and Kazaa lite on the underground websites only noobs used the versions from the developers millions of people back then infected themselves with spyware and millions of people still do just its in different programs now nothing has changed really http://forums.zeropaid.com/thread/imesh-will-there-ever-be-a-new-version-of-dr-damns-clean-imesh.7058/ In 2010- 2011 more people used File host than P2P even tell the feds shutdown megaupload in 2012 is the only reason p2p became really popular again. uploading was big money. back in the day.. I still dont like P2P who wants to use something were the governments and Copyright trolls can see what you download. https://torrentfreak.com/cyberlockers-take-over-file-sharing-lead-from-bittorrent-sites-110111/ https://torrentfreak.com/top-10-largest-file-sharing-sites-110828/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 Quote BitTorrent Protocol Turns 15 Years Old Today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Vega Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 Happy birthday BitTorrent Protocol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdhxppro Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 BitTorrent Protocol is a legend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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