Closing up parts of the BitTorrent protocol may have been a necessary business decision by Bram Cohen and company, but it's motivated the people behind The Pirate Bay to start working on a new protocol to replace torrents.
new protocol that does away with problems that exist today, TorrentFreak said:
Another reason for a new and improved protocol is the massive number of spammers and anti-piracy organizations that abuse the BitTorrent protocol, either to make money or to bust people who download infringing material. The new protocol will be designed with these potential problems in mind.We have a suggestion for the protocol developers. The rare bit problem stinks, more than spammers, more than people who upload fake files. As horrifying as the P2P crowd will find the suggestion, Microsoft has reportedly figured out a way around this problem with their
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