Will BT die ?

[t0mmy]

some ISPs give their users free access to their usenet servers, mine did but they stopped

[Ænima]

Is this thread considering thepiratebay's new project .p2p as bt? .p2p is backwards compatible with .torrent files after all.

[I beleive.....]

Everything have beginning and the end, so.......some day

[LoKaLiRi]

Never die as FST alive

[Ænima]

Bittorrent is a protocol, a way of communicating and sharing data. It will never die in theory. In practice, it should become very unpopular for its insecurity in a few years. See torrentfreak's article on the .p2p protocol:http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-b...orrent-071030/

Here is the protocol design page: http://securep2p.net/index.php?title=Main_Page

[grimms]

I think bittorent will evenually die out. But when it does it will be due to a very strong replacement. Remember Kazaa anyone?

[sear]

Of course it will die out...and in less then five years I would guess. Saying it will last up to 20 is ridiculous think about how much computers have changed in 20 years

But of course file sharing will still be around because essentially people want free shit.

[sleepyy]

As allways it dies then it's replaced when i don't know say 5 years some will still remain no idea why they just will winmx for example people say it is still around i wish i could get it to work the patch just don't work for me.

[pro267]

Of course it will die out...and in less then five years I would guess. Saying it will last up to 20 is ridiculous think about how much computers have changed in 20 years

I'm not quite sure BT will die in less than 5 years. BT's popularity has been growing steadily in the last few years, and if we look at previous large file sharing networks that have gone down in popularity, most have been forced to do so due to pressure from the movie/recording industry (napster, kazaa etc.)
BT seems more resilient to such pressures due to the extreme segmentation of trackers.

As to evolving replacements, I agree some superior protocol will probably come out, but I don't see anything overthrowing BT in the near future. I would go with 5-10 years.

[Adama]

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