[Wolves] Bit Torrent is rubbish

[David Goodwin]

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As I understand it, BitTorrents advantages over e.g. Kazza etc are :

1) File integrity is guaranteed - in that if the author of some software 
puts a .torrent up, punters download the .torrent, which itself contains 
a checksum of the eventual file they download from where ever. If you 
download a file from Kazaa you've no idea where it came from or if it's 
the genuine article. (This assumes you trust who ever posts the .torrent!)


2) The more people who download a file on BitTorrent the faster it will 
be for everyone else...


3) The main clients are written in Python....


4) Although it doesn't have an inbuilt search engine, there are numerous 
third party ones (e.g. towerseek.org, tvtorrents.tv, google etc)


5) It can actually claim to have legitimate uses :)



David.