Travis,
I contracted for BitTorrent, Inc. so I can tell you that they are
simply in it for the cash and this protocol will not be made public.
This is based on my experience with that company. Although it's fairly
simple to reconstruct the protocol from a binary dump of UT, I don't
think it's in anyones interest because I don't believe it to be
properly implemented as it is today.
J
On Dec 1, 2008, at 1:54 PM, travis kalanick wrote:
David,
I'm going to guess that it's all DHT, with the possibility of
tracker support but ONLY in the proprietary Bittorrent Inc. trackers
(which only sit on the bittorrent.com or Bittorrent Inc. controlled
domains).
It is not in Bittorrent Inc.'s interest to make trackers generally
better on the Internet.
In order to make money, they want their client technology widely
distributed to 100's of millions of users, fully in their control
(i.e. no open source for uTorrent), and for Bittorrent, Inc. to have
the preeminent, feature-rich trackers. And of course, they maintain
a powerful DHT so that uTorrent clients get good, fast, free pirated
content on demand with somewhat-minimized risk of THE MAN carrying
them off to jail (this keeps the kids coming back to install
utorrent :))
Travis
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:10 PM, David Barrett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Saw uTorrent switched to UDP:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/01/richard_bennett_utorrent_udp/
Did they also add simultaneous connect NAT traversal? That'd
require a
tracker change, I assume. (Though they could probably do it through
the
DHT.)
-david
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