By far, torrenting is the easiest and perhaps best way to share files. BT will survive until something better comes along. There is no talk of trackers to just go away and disappear. You can see new trackers opening up very often and some last for a long time. The other problem is that NG has the worst reputation for illegal content such as child abuse etc.. There is also more competition in the BT community which keeps the whole thing alive.

I don't think torrenting is anywhere near the end.I can barely count 3 sites that have gone down as a result of some anti-P2P agency in recent time.

The faces are definitely going to change but BT shall/will<---artemis? always be here.You know some people have been doing this for the longest time and just need that final excuse to call it a day.The demise of FTWR and fort knox was that excuse for some of those who had been through it all and only did it for the community and largely considered most of the other sites ridiculous or run by tards.

So its not BT dying,its just people being replaced.Am sure stoi loves BCG but at one point or the other,things will get old and he'll either play it the feeling way or pass it on to somebody else.

Its good some columbia geek invented SIP.That,newsgroup and one click hosts just make the transition easier...I feel.

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I don't think torrenting will ever end in the near future. While public trackers got a big blow in 2009, private trackers have never been bigger. More and more private trackers are popping up every day.

I think that torrenting won't end in the near future.
But nevertheless I agree with others that if this era would end,
then something better will come along.

Not all of them stay up for long, unfortunately.

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I totally agree... I also noticed a trend towards private trackers after the big public ones got hit. This somehow excludes the majority of ppl though... So i'm not sure if this is a good development for the Filesharing community. Of course it's a great thing once you are in one of those private trackers and everyone is seeding and you get the most insane DL speeds but I find some too exclusive and hard to get in. When I read more and more about ppl selling invites to private trackers it just makes me sad.
I found Winny, Share and PerfectDark some very interesting concepts for Filesharing and hope it catches on also outside of Japan/Asia.

Using them seems to me beyond the regular filesharing experience, I couldn't even get them up and running. Maybe I'm stupid

Anyway BT is by far one of the most advanced and prolific p2p technologies. Don't misjudge it by recent popularity decrease, it caused by authorities pressure in first place and has nothing to do with its design. Maybe it's gonna be surpassed by more advanced technology, but first someone should invent it I don't see it coming too soon.

Getting PerfectDark to work used to be a pain in the ass. Especially if you wanted English menus. The newest version supports English natively though. So it's as simple as: Extract -> make settings in the wizard -> add some nodes and you're done ;D
I very much like the idea of anonymous file sharing. Pure leeching is impossible as you have to host at least 40GB in a unity folder and have a minimum upload speed set to 100KB/s.

Nothing is unbeatable...

I have read the 100kB/s minimum makes sense in Japan, which is where Perfect Dark comes from, since they have high-speed connections there.

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