Because torrents screen out dummy and corrupt files, are free of adware/spyware, and achieve amazing download speeds, torrent popularity is growing fast. At its current rate of growth, BitTorrent networking will become the largest true P2P...
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Because torrents screen out dummy and corrupt files, are free of adware/spyware, and achieve amazing download speeds, torrent popularity is growing fast. At its current rate of growth, BitTorrent networking will become the largest true P2P file-sharing community within the next year. How are torrents special? How is the torrent community different from Kazaa or Limewire? Answer: Like the other file-sharing networks (Kazaa, Limewire, Gnutella, eDonkey, and Shareaza) BitTorrent’s primary purpose is to distribute large media files to private users. Unlike most P2P networks, however, BitTorrent stands out for 5 major reasons: * BitTorrent networking is NOT a publish-subscribe model like Kazaa; instead, BitTorrent is true Peer-Peer networking where the users do the actual file serving. * Torrents enforce quality control by filtering out corrupted and dummy files, ensuring that downloads contain only what they claim to contain. * Torrents actively encourage users to share (“seed”) their... See less 
