Comments on: AllPeers BitTorrent Plugin Preview For TechCrunch Readers

By: Hero

Hero — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:44:14 +0000

By: Aron

Aron — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:19:14 +0000

By: tomer

tomer — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:44:03 +0000

new way to search for torrents:

http://www.prrvid.com

click on the torrent live search and start typing the name of the torrent.

By: Matthew Gertner

Matthew Gertner — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:18:34 +0000

We already do some, but not all of that. Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll definitely have our networking developers take a closer look.

By: Matt_

Matt_ — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:14:33 +0000

Um Just a few things Tribler has that Allpeers does’nt and Tribler is a open source research project Im sure they would be happy that a commercial developer is using thier code .

Please check out what they are up to and try and incorporate some of these features into Allpeers and we might use it

https://www.tribler.org/

* PermID: Permanent Identifier of peers to enhance the security of Bittorrent
* MerkleHashes: Secure identifiers of content which removes the need for .torrent files
* OverlaySwarm: A secure method of communication between peers in different swarms
* CooperativeDownload: Double your download speed by sharing upload capacity amongst friends
* DecentralizedRecommendation: Websites for finding .torrent files are no longer needed, Tribler knows what you like and finds it

DistributedTracker: Replacing the bittorrent tracker with a gossip protocol

# BarterCast: a protocol to exchange the altruism levels of peers. Altruism is defined as the amount of uploading versus downloading of a person

# Buddycast3: This version of BuddyCast adds ratings, comments, faster .torrent collecting, access to more content due to RSS subscription integration, and superior scalability

By: Matthew Gertner

Matthew Gertner — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:42:00 +0000

Such as?

By: Matt_

Matt_ — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:38:31 +0000

Matthew Gerner why dont you put the features of say Tribler in your client ???

By: Matthew Gertner

Matthew Gertner — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:13:31 +0000

Oh, and by the way, we never said we would monitor for illegal downloads. Actually that would be impossible given the nature of our P2P network.

By: Matthew Gertner

Matthew Gertner — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:12:30 +0000

Sean,

Good point. Actually we’ve seen that for many of our users AllPeers is the first extension they’ve ever installed. One of the cool things about this new release is I can give it to friends and then share torrents with them, so they don’t have to go through the pain of discovering them themselves in the initial stages.

Matt

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:18:06 +0000

“the system is meant to be accessible for people who don’t already use BitTorrent”

Call me crazy, but I don’t see a whole lot of overlap between these two groups:

* People who use Firefox, know what extensions are, and how to install them.
* People who DON’T use or don’t know HOW to use BitTorrent.

Sorry to be negative but if this is your target audience, well, you have about 3 potential customers!

By: Hemanth

Hemanth — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:02:18 +0000

Another White hat P2P network? How can they ensure the files being distributed are not illegal in large scale?

http://www.techtalkz.com

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:59:13 +0000

It’s SO easy to “steal” video already via P2P, this seems fairly unremarkable. Do Firefox users really need easier ways to steal content and share it with each other? Don’t get me wrong, I do understand many people who download such stuff paid for HBO already and want to be able to watch Entourage while they travel or whatever…but they already could do that easily enough.

Does TC have warrants in this company? Otherwise why the special TC Beta? And does TC really want to be involved with this in that way? I understand why TC would write about it, especially in light of all the Firefox users it has — but a special beta just for TC readers?

By: Dominic

Dominic — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:54:22 +0000

Michael

It’s a “terrible policy” to make sure everything is legal. Oh well! More situation ethics from an attorney. GO figure. Sharks are everywhere.

and to the Fake Steve Ballmer

You sure know a lot about software criminals.

By: Matt_

Matt_ — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:17:50 +0000

http://www.allp...d-peer-to-peer/

Mike certain members of the so called p2p community have tried to paint Allpeers and any other company using p2p for profit as working with the MPAA and RIAA especially after the Grokster and Kazaa decisions .

By: whoopie

whoopie — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:08:48 +0000

allpeers has some ease-of-use appeal, but in the end its just another bt client, thats how people will use it. viable as a volunteer open source project, but i doubt there is a business here

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:02:01 +0000

This software is for criminals!
Is that new video Osama? Vista answers!
http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: $idharth

$idharth — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:51:10 +0000

Sad i cant use this with my IE7…cant download FF just for this.. i love my IE

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:49:05 +0000

yeah, it that is accurate it is a terrible policy. Ed, can you point to anything?

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:45:41 +0000

Well, they did mention they were gonna work with companies to prevent to much copyrighted content from being distributed, that equates to monitoring. I sure do hope they don’t monitor, merely from an ethical standpoint, I want whatever I share with my list of buddies to be firmly between just us

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:42:15 +0000

did they say somewhere they are going to try to monitor downloads to determine if they are legal or not? That would not be a good move.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:37:20 +0000

Most excellent extension. However, have they not stated that they will be monitoring for illegal downloads? Let’s be honest, if they do, then that severely cuts down on it’s usefulness…..to most people