[Speakers] torrents

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Wed Jan 5 10:51:35 EST 2005


> > Is there anybody that can give a small presentation on the background and sage 
> > of bittorrent?  

I would be interested in this.

> > I have just started looking into using it and find it quite 
> > cool, but what kinds of downloads are there or should I say how does one find 
> > the "legal" (and yes I mean the legal, this illegal is far too easy to find) 
> > stuff?  How does it actually work? Is there any kind of listing for open 
> > source projects that are available through this form of P2P?
> I've ONLY used to for Linux distributions (ISO images).  Many distros
> (at least the ones I've downloaded), specify the torrent (config?) file
> on the download page of their web site.

Besides ISO's what is general large enough to merit the use of
Bitorrent?  Is there a bit torrent module for Win32 workstations?



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