The Future of BitTorrent
Friday, February 1st, 2008BitTorrent is the most widely used peer-to-peer filesharing protocol. It’s estimated BitTorrent is responsible for 35% of all internet traffic today. Since it’s conception by creator Bram Cohen, BitTorrent been known and used for piracy of files such as movies, television shows, and music. However, legal options have always been available. Infact, Cohen created BitTorrent to remain legal, and he hopes to further relationships with media compaines and hardware developers to distribute their content. Today you can use BitTorrent to download just about any TV show or movie you want for free and without commercials. They’ll be stored on you computer’s hard drive, ready to watch whenever you want. Think about it as free TiVo on your PC or free video on demand. Of course, there are obvious limitations: you could get in legal trouble, and who wants to watch movies on their computer monitor anyway? As this technology continues to grow and mature, we’ll move past these limitations, and BitTorrent will become a major legal distributor of video content, it will be a major competitior to TiVo and TV networks. Soon, we will be downloading our favorite tv shows from BitTorrent right on your television set. More and more homes will be hooked up to BitTorrent just like they’re hooked up to cable TV.
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