Talk:BitTorrent

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Date	Process	Result
November 3, 2004	Peer review	Reviewed

This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:

Darren Waters (March 8, 2005). "How Doctor Who spread on the net". BBC News.
"BitTorrent maker sets up search". BBC News. May 27, 2005.
John Cranmer (July 17, 2005). "Bound to be Gagged". Gay Times.
Spencer Kelly (April 16, 2006). "BitTorrent battles over bandwidth". BBC News.

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Skewed POV

I see that it is not a new topic of concern, but the introduction (and indeed the article) leans heavily towards a subjective perspective rather than objectively what Bit Torrent does or how it works. I also noticed there isn't really a 'legitimate uses' discussion to counterbalance the potential copyright infringement negative light. (talk) 03:31, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is bundles.bittorrent.com is 'a download site which is prohibited and promotes copyright infringement'?

Am I misunderstanding the essence of BitTorrent_(company)#BitTorrent_Bundle? Please see this (attempt at a) discussion over whether we can/should link to Madonna's bundle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:IndianBio#Accusations_about_personal_behavior_that_lack_evidence_are_considered_personal_attacks... It's hard to deal with someone who thinks users are uploadable to a website. <sic> And conflates protocols, domains and hostnames. And seems to be saying we need to delete this page section! --50.201.195.170 (talk) 06:28, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

History

This article is missing a good History of BitTorrent secion! Does anybody want to try to write one? Miserlou (talk) 14:51, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

bittorrent.com malware

If you install the Bittorrent Web, your PC will be riddled with bloat ware, malware, web browser extensions installed, search engine changed, etc. Beware. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:600:9500:3180:BC17:E90:56BC:5C8E (talk) 06:01, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update last paragraph of summary

Are there any news stats for "As of 2013, BitTorrent has 15–27 million, concurrent users, at any time." seen on the last paragraph of the article summary? BitTorrent has expanded probably exponentially like the rest of the internet in those 7 years. DannyDouble (talk) 21:19, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Disputing claim that bittorrent generated Internet traffic, with 2.46% of down, and 27.58% of up traffic

In first section is mentioned that In 2019, BitTorrent was a dominant file sharing protocol and generated a substantial amount of Internet traffic, with 2.46% of downstream, and 27.58% of upstream traffic I would like to dispute this on those reasons:

Claim doesn't make logical sense

As I don't see any obvious reason why up and down traffic should be not equivalent (remember each date that you send, you're sending it to somebody so what's on your side upstream is on receiving side downstream).

= Article which is citing is not focused on that topic

After checking referenced article "doi:10.1002/cpe.5723" I found that article itself is not about this subject but rather about energy consumption of BiTtorent network, They are mentioning original statement in introduction page, but not as part of their study. And they are referencing The Global Internet Phenomena Report, Sandvine; 2019. as source for that information.

For that last reference, I wasn't able to get hand on that so I wasn't able to verify if it's mentioned there and how they get that number. Burlak23 (talk) 19:46, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]