Tribler - The Open Source de-centralised P2P client

[torrentthief]

http://dl.tribler.org/download.html

This is a new open source client that is decentralised unlike torrents, it also has verified downloads so you know which files are fake and which arent.

It is essentially a modern decentralised edonkey/limewire or similar client.

It will be interesting to see how it progresses.

Source; http://torrentfreak.com/tribler-makes-bittorrent-impossible-to-shut-down-120208/

[Xilo]

No screenshots. No other information besides "another p2p".

Sounds fishy.

[torrentthief]

screenshots added and TorrentFreak news article too.

I wish there was some information about how the decentralisation worked and how effecient it was compared to torrents. As uploading a 1gb file to a swarm of 200 piers with normal speed broadband often takes 1.15-1.35gb which is rather ineffecient.T

The sourcecode is on the site btw, hopefully slashdot or someone else will read it and post diagrams of how the client's distribution works.

[BetaAddict]

No screenshots. No other information besides "another p2p".

Sounds fishy.

It's legit. Even featured on TorrentFreak and saw it on reddit as well. Going to give it a try this weekend.

screenshots added and TorrentFreak news article too.

I wish there was some information about how the decentralisation worked and how effecient it was compared to torrents. As uploading a 1gb file to a swarm of 200 piers with normal speed broadband often takes 1.15-1.35gb which is rather ineffecient.T

The sourcecode is on the site btw, hopefully slashdot or someone else will read it and post diagrams of how the client's distribution works.

From what I understand, the seeders would store some of the torrent information that would then collected when a specific search queries are made, thereby essentially making the search process p2p.

[torrentthief]

yeah, just read the torrentfreak article, it uses torrents essentially but without needing a centralised server. Was hoping it might use a more efficient using less bandwidth.

[RealFduch]

There already is a decentralized Torrent network - DHT (DistributedHashTable). That's why you can download files via a magnet link without downloading any .torrent files.

What DHT lacks is a decentralized name search like the one implemented in Kademlia (which is used by eMule for distributed search and is AFAIK ironically the basis of DHT).

What I don't like with torrents is that its hash is for the whole torrent. I'd prefer that each file had it's own hash and was its own distributed "torrent". That way people who download single files (e.g. episodes) would share the files with people who download the whole season etc. The only problem I see with this approach is the ability to identify files by their unique hash and track users/disrupt the downloads.