Archive for the 'Filesharing' Category

Companies blocking BitTorrent

Sunday, August 22nd, 2004

This BoingBoing entry mentions a new product designed to block BitTorrent packets. Apparently the developer (Akonix) is getting companies to buy and deploy this product by spreading lies about the BitTorrent application and protocol, saying that it causes users to inadvertently share sensitive files.

Sounds like a silly product in the first place, as a few [...]

Bitoogle

Monday, July 19th, 2004

Here’s an interesting site: Bitoogle, a BitTorrent search engine (via Boing Boing).

It’s funny how BitTorrent, which was really just implemented to speed up downloads of large files and not for filesharing, turned into a popular and efficient filesharing application…