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<blockquote data-quote="thormagni" data-source="post: 4370157" data-attributes="member: 13637">I'm not really familiar with LimeWire. My impression was that it worked like Kazaa/Grokster, in that there is a central Web site shuttling the information back and forth.Torrents are more decentralized. You use a Web site to find out what Torrents are flying around the Net and download the little text file that tells your BitTorrent program where to go to get the files you want. But taking down the search engine doesn't keep the Torrents from flowing.And instead of downloading from one other person, as I recall Kazaa/Grokster did, with a Torrent you are downloading different pieces from different users at the same time as you are giving out different pieces to different users. The faster you upload, the faster it lets you download.&nbsp; Torrents are the current hot way to do Peer 2 Peer, but some Internet providers are already experimenting with blocking the port torrents stream on. Comcast, I have read, is doing that in some areas. It's the constant arms race. Pirates find a route, the authorities move in to cut that off and the pirates move to a new route.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thormagni, post: 4370157, member: 13637"] I'm not really familiar with LimeWire. My impression was that it worked like Kazaa/Grokster, in that there is a central Web site shuttling the information back and forth. Torrents are more decentralized. You use a Web site to find out what Torrents are flying around the Net and download the little text file that tells your BitTorrent program where to go to get the files you want. But taking down the search engine doesn't keep the Torrents from flowing. And instead of downloading from one other person, as I recall Kazaa/Grokster did, with a Torrent you are downloading different pieces from different users at the same time as you are giving out different pieces to different users. The faster you upload, the faster it lets you download. Torrents are the current hot way to do Peer 2 Peer, but some Internet providers are already experimenting with blocking the port torrents stream on. Comcast, I have read, is doing that in some areas. It's the constant arms race. Pirates find a route, the authorities move in to cut that off and the pirates move to a new route. [/QUOTE]

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