July 21st, 2010 by Esteban Heinzen | No Comments
Nowadays, when many people have forgotten about its wonderful advantages and others have become part of the ill-intentioned discredit trend led by those who fight piracy, P2P technology gains predominance among leading companies worldwide. Facebook and Twitter are some of the companies that, using BitTorrent in particular, revived peer-to-peer in favor of their processes and [...]
October 5th, 2009 by Betiana Venditti | 4 Comments
Among the most popular methods for downloading files from the Internet, we also have .torrents. The Bit Torrent protocol works when a file provider initially makes his/her file available to the network. This is called a seed and allows others, named peers, to connect and download the file. Some Bit Torrent clients have their own search engine to look for movies, CDs, games, applications and more, and some others do not, which means you´ll to have to look for them in torrent portals. There are lots of clients to choose from, making it very difficult for the average user to tell a difference among them, since some of them look exactly the same thus creating confusion among users. Here we take a look at some of the more popular ones. We introduce you to µTorrent, Azureus, BitComet and BitTorrent.