Thursday, February 18, 2010

BitTorrent, How does it Work?

I'm sure you've all heard of BitTorrent, the tool of pirates, free software users, World of Warcraft Players and Universities. But how does it actually work?







Here is a great visualization on how the data gets shared around "Seeds" and "Peers". (You'll need to use a proper browser, Like Opera, Chrome, Firefox or Safari to view it, because Internet Explorer sucks)


Via TorrentFreak

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