Talk:BitTorrent

BitTorrent index was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 12 September 2016 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into BitTorrent. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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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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"First a bit of history-and-culture stuff. I was working on Mojo Nation, in its secret pre-launch mode in early 2000, with Jim McCoy, Doug Barnes, Greg Smith, and Bram Cohen..." "Mojo Nation lineage went through a series of restarts and a changing lineup of performers. Err, I mean of programmers. During this time, Bram Cohen left Mojo Nation and invented BitTorrent. The goals of BitTorrent can be seen as a subset of the goals of Mojo Nation. I learned from the success of BitTorrent that it can help to limit the scope of features you are trying to combine into one software project. " https://archive.is/SqYkz#selection-71.2178-71.2248 (https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-July/006560.html) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.71.62.41 (talk) 15:47, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hyper distribution

Yes it might be arcane and with only a few references, but as long as it is an article it fits here. If hyper distribution is not sufficiently notable then please take its article to AfD and only remove the link to it if it gets deleted, but until then the link in BitTorrent is quite appropriate. Eno Lirpa (talk) 14:17, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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]