Projects tagged ‘media’, ‘p2p’, ‘sharing’, and ‘web’

BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden almost nothing.

LeechCraft is an extensible crossplatform multiprotocol opensource download manager. Currently it supports BitTorrent, HTTP, RSS/Atom feeds, allows you to chat in IRC a bit and a lot more.

Dijjer is free P2P software that dramatically reduces the bandwidth needed to host large files. A type of distributed web cache, Dijjer nodes rely on a small number of "seed" peers, through which new Dijjer peers can assimilate into the Dijjer ... [More] network. These are not essential however, you can (through use of Dijjer's command line interface) instruct Dijjer to assimilate through any Dijjer peer. You could even create a network of Dijjer nodes that is entirely separate from the main Dijjer network. [Less]

The open source FoxTorrent Firefox extension that lets you stream torrents as they download, from your web browser, with zero configuration needed.