BitTorrent Dictionary (By a noob, for noobs!)

If you're serious about making a new dictionary, you need to include terms like DHT, Availability, Tracker Updates, Banned Clients (A general definition of why clients are sometimes banned). I'd also recommend defining Peerguardian, Private tracker versus Public. Freeleech, Donations (might be too obvious, not sure), user ranks (user, power user, etc), Sysop, gazelle, hydra. Perhaps include definitions of some of the more... notorious public trackers, and private (although, keep descriptions of current ones minimal).

I'm sure there's a ton I'm forgetting... but it's 3 am in the morning, so you'll have to excuse me.

Well, this thread was useless as what posted here is common sense. Anyone who have never used torrent would still have basic concept of torrent from common terminology.

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Originally Posted by Detale

I hate to burst your bubble here but it's been Done already.

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^ Other note LOL now that was funny.

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Originally Posted by Definite

Scrape: When your client sends a request to the tracking server, asking for info on the torrent like who to share the file with and how well those other users are sharing.

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This part needs a major correction.

1) Announce is what tells you who to connect to. Scrape doesn't.

2) Scrape does not return any info about individual peers at all. It returns only the number of peers/seeds/completed for either the torrents requested using the info_hash parameter (can be repeated multiple times) or for all tracked torrents when no info_hash is defined.

3) Even announce does not tell you anything about how well anyone is sharing. Announce will only give you their IP, port and possibly peer_id. It is then up to your client to work out the rest.

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Originally Posted by rvt

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Originally Posted by Definite

Scrape: When your client sends a request to the tracking server, asking for info on the torrent like who to share the file with and how well those other users are sharing.

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This part needs a major correction.

1) Announce is what tells you who to connect to. Scrape doesn't.

2) Scrape does not return any info about individual peers at all. It returns only the number of peers/seeds/completed for either the torrents requested using the info_hash parameter (can be repeated multiple times) or for all tracked torrents when no info_hash is defined.

3) Even announce does not tell you anything about how well anyone is sharing. Announce will only give you their IP, port and possibly peer_id. It is then up to your client to work out the rest.

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lol that would be great for a BitTorrent Dictionary for noobs

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Originally Posted by HyperNode

Well, this thread was useless as what posted here is common sense. Anyone who have never used torrent would still have basic concept of torrent from common terminology.

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Originally Posted by Detale

I hate to burst your bubble here but it's been Done already.

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^ Other note LOL now that was funny.

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People new to bittorrent will not understand most of the terminology; I was there not too long ago. (I thought client = customer = the person you get file from lol)
An other example: i wanted to learn more about newsgroup. Where do I go? To the newsgroup forum FST. I read the threads and don't understand what those guys were talking. I don't even want to ask questions because I don't even know how. I have to start reading the NewsGroups Guide For Newsleecher, and that too is not an easy read.

wht about invites thing :whistling

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Swarm: A group of users (seeders and leechers) connected to each other, sharing the same torrent. Like the super friends, only without the crime fighting. For exampke, if your bittorrent client tells you that you're connected to 6 peers and 2 seeds, your swarm is made up of you and those 8 other people.

Scrape: When your client sends a request to the tracking server, asking for info on the torrent like who to share the file with and how well those other users are sharing.

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thanks for these 2 definitions.
i didnt know what they meant.

Good stuff, thanks for taking the time

I added a few more terms, thanks for the suggestions guys. I'm still trying to keep the definitions simple and easy to understand.

Apparently I defined "scrape" wrong, can someone offer a more correct and simple definition? Again, thanks for the help. :D

Way to go Definite. Keep up the good work. Funny definitions :)