BitTorrent as Fast As Possible
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- How does P2P file sharing like BitTorrent work, and is it as bad as everyone makes it out to be?
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FINALLY! Someone calls it microtorrent, instead of utorrent.
Shouldnt it be mu-torrent?
Actually, I was never quite sure how to pronounce it. I thought it was mu because that's how this letter is pronounced in Greek. Why microtorrent, though? Where does micro come from?
***** Thanks for taking the time to answer :-)
Veselin Krastev μ = 1x10^-9
which is what the micro- prefix is.
Veselin Krastev That's intersting. Years and years ago I used to run μtorrent on a really old Windows XP computer. And it was the ONLY program than ran smoothly and didn't crash.
It isn't piracy if you actually purchased the item.
it also isn't piracy if it is linux and/or put there by the company for use with their product like a .torrent update file to the game ussualy
copyright law is a very complicated issue but basicly if it remotely looks like a copyright things of a major company then you can bet on that major company going after whoever is profitting off and/or getting attention becuase of it.
If that is actual breaking of the copyright law depends on which lawyer you pay to find what kind of exploit or loophole in the law to allow your side to be right under the law.
I know i’m late... but what if I bought a specific game on a console (ps4 for instance) but then I wanna play it on my pc
Is it legal if I just downloaded it for free from the internet??
Uchiha Takeshi
No. The PC port of a game is different from the console version, so legally you have to buy the PC version.
Time | If the game dosen't have a PC port like Uncharted or Mario games, but you've purcase the game for the specific console and want to emulate it on PC for better graphics or FPS, then *YES* you can do it.
Isn't leeching a way to stop piracy while pirating ?
Doing God's work.
Dickish, but understandable, too bad the leecher already committed the piracy
Preventing murder by murdering the murderer.
Lmao, this comment is soo underrated
ah yes
the floor here is made out of floor
Man, I love official torrents; like when game developers offer their games through a torrent download instead of a direct download. You get the convenience of being able to pause and/or throttle the download if you need more bandwidth at the moment. For somebody like me, who's download peak is ~250-300 KB/s with *very* low bandwidth, being able to pause the download during the day and resume it during times when I won't be active on the network is great. Not to mention that torrents are usually faster for me than direct downloads.
Thanks linus for explaining this concept, i had a teacher threaten to kick me out of class if he saw u-torrent or some other torrent software on the computers. I had to explain to him how torrenting is not bad and only carries a bad name, he dident belive me so now i have something to point him into the right direction.
hi any update after 8 yrs
BitTorrent is a really, REALLY great technology. Imagine the server is on the other side of the world, instead of that someone from the other side of the world seeded, someone who was closer to you downloaded it and seeds again, you download data from 2 sources at once, you share your data for other people, also, even if there would be one seed closer to you than a server and it would have the same internet speed as the server, it would download faster with the closer seed.
I think 90% torrent users are leechers
Lol i have 300kbps download and 100kbps upload. I still seed.
10mbps download
1mbps upload
i still seed
Liam Barnes We have the same cap, but 100GB night surfer as well. I don't like to keep a file seeding through the night because there's always a risk of it using almost everything.
+goeiecool9999 Pretty much in the same boat but only a pair of bonded 80/20 links here still get nice ratios 16.1 TB up, 888 GB down think to be honest that's easy to pull off if you have even probably 10 Mbps up it's pretty rare that demand exceeds that level for long for me despite having tens of TB worth of archives lol.
I never seed
so it's microtorrent, not you-torrent or moo-torrent
Mew*
+James Topkek42 but the folder it's installed to says utorrent
***** I realize that, but I'll still call it utorrent. Rolls off the tongue a lot easier :p
+James Topkek42 Technically the name would be mu torrent because that is the Greek letter mu. Mu means micro in the metric system (it's also the coeffcient of static or kinetic friction), but technically it would be pronounced mu torrent.
+Hasan Gürbüz The file system does not handle special characters properly like μ
"Do what you want, 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!" - Robbie "Rottenbeard" Rotten or a.k.a. the Unofficial Anthem of Software Pirates.
Over 98% of the games I played were downloaded/torrented/bought pirated copies. The other 2% were legitimately bought games like Max Payne 3 and soon, GTA V for PC. Piracy is also the reason why I not only become a PC elitist but also concentrated on Singleplayer.
you sound pretty cool dude
the story of my life
You suck
lol, best comment ever
You are cancer.
4:37 - Rap god
OMG he actually said "Micro Torrent"!!! Finally someone who actually knows what that funny looking u means!!
its the SI unit micro
Who actually calls it micro torrent?
Everyone knows it's pronounced "mu".
I do lol
I have always called it MuTorrent.
xnamkcor X most people pronounces it "you-torrent" (uTorrent). Personally i've never heard anyone pronouncing it "Mu-torrent" even RUclips. But maybe it's common, idk.
WayZHC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter)
Good video, I'll throw in my two cents though. I have used torrents to try out games, if I like the game I buy it and delete the file I downloaded completely(except for save files sometimes). I am the proud owner of over 160 games in steam, a lot which I would not have bought if I had not been able to try the full version first. A company puts out a crap game should not be able to get my money to keep so i try it first, a movie that is horrible to me is in the same category, why should that production company get to keep my money......but if it is good then I do give them my money and actually purchase the product. Leaching is sometimes needed because ISP's won't mind their damn business and just take my money monthly like they should and will threaten you for doing such things, if it is something an ISP will not bother you about then seed like your growing a farm, but thats not usually the case.
I do the same thing with games, except in the rare case that the game was made by a small company (that accepts donations) and produced by somebody like EA or Activision, I'll get the game through 'nefarious methods', then donate the price of it to the game devs. I do this for small companies that I want to help by making sure they get 100% of the money I spent on it (plus, I *really* hate EA and want to avoid giving them my money).
***** "plus, I really hate EA and want to avoid giving them my money" Why so? They have been getting a lot better recently. Also the hate train has moved onto Ubisoft.
Damn is that ubisoft statement is so true
Zambito1 The main reason I don't like EA is Origin. I have literally never heard anybody say anything good about Origin. It's always tacked on as a "but" when talking about games (i.e. "The Sims 4 is pretty cool, but you have to use Origin..." - Markiplier)
Also, I don't know what Ubisoft has done recently, as I don't stay up to date on video game news.
***** The one thing I like that Origin does right that Steam sucks at is customer support. Also everyone has been hating Ubisoft for Watch Dogs being downgraded on PC to match console graphics, Uplay NEEDING internet access even for single player games, The recent Assassins Creed title being locked at 30 fps to "feel cinematic", and being buggy as hell.
Lol I've been calling it "utorrent" like all of my friends and now just as i learned the symbol in physics i hear it's called microtorrent
More like mu torrent
There's actually a lot of companies that use P2P for large files, windows uses p2p also to distribute updates, and of course, linux distros are typically p2p.
is backing out of a video the instant linus says "speaking of" the same thing as leeching?
1:11 Hungarian flags !!!! :D
There is nothing bad about sharing copyrighted material, as long as you have the permission to do so.
(e.g HumbleBundle or movies by Blender Foundation)
Is it just me, or is there an encoding issue in the 4k version of this video ~4-6 seconds in?
I would seed but I have crappy internet.
every fucking dump shit says that, seed when you are not using your pc, stop it when you use it. there is people that are still on dial up
Think of how much of a big difference it would make if everyone who thought like you, actually seeded.
lol I wouldn't seed even if I had a stable, high bandwidth connection. crymore
omar habra
Yeah I don't understand. There is NO reason not to seed, unless you're running 24/7 uploads. Upload bandwidth goes almost completely unused, so why not use it? I don't stick around and seed endlessly. but I at least give back a little more than I take.
omar habra would you like people to seed at 30kb/s? (my up speed)
leeches aren't much of an issue with legal content, it is illegal content that gets people to remove it as soon as it is done. a vpn fixes the issue, but uploading as a seeder is certain to get you an email from your isp.
depending on the country you live. In greece for example none will come to you cause u download illegal stuff. Including ripped movies and cracked games etc. Leechers are an issue to small and yet not that "healthy" torrents. When its new and there are 5-10 seeders you cant just delete the torrent. We had once a greek torrent site called gamato.com (in english means cool or awesome). It was closed and reopened as a .it and they transefered the servers again till it was gone for good. There the torrents were available for members only (with free signing) and were mostly for greeks (even though anyone could sign). And cause we had smaller torrents and less seeders i kept seeding. I downloaded about 300-400GB and uploaded OVER 1TB with ADSL. Yes it was over some years though but i did it cause we were a relatively small community based on worldwide sites like TPB. My theory is that once you download a torrent let it seed untill you upload its size at least 1 time. But with big torrents with 2-3k seeders i rly dont see any reason for someone with less upload speed to NOT be a leecher.
Alex Paf Are you sure about the law? Many countries allow downloading but sharing/seeding is illegal almost everywhere in Europe (not gonna say everywhere). I wouldn't be surprised if it's illegal to seed in Greece as well. Downloading might still be legal.
WayZHC fck the police then! :P
Alex Paf Yeah, it's pretty rare to get caught up. Happy torrenting :p
WayZHC Yeah... In Romania, when someone from my ISP came to change my router for one that could handle 1000 Mbps he saw that I was seeding a lot of torrents and instead of telling me that it's illegal and I could get arrested, he asked me if I could invite him on Filelist (the biggest private tracker in Romania)... So yeah.
also, to be a seeder (active node) you need to have some ports forwarded on your router. if you don't, then you will only be uploading to those active nodes, which are people who most likely already have the file. and your download speed will also decrease w/o those ports being open. this especially sucks for people behind an isp nat, who can't open those isp-side ports (XD)
Yup that's why not even a single megabyte uploads to any peers even if I am seeding for days. So the only choice I have is to either pay for seedbox and the seed or be a douchebag leecher.
hey my bit torrent is not uninstalling from my pc it was not seen in control panel also but it was visible to me what to do
How does it split data between computers?
1. I came here to see it seeding uses HDD a lot and if it will get worn out. Lets say one pc askes for download from another, it goes one way. But if 2 pc ask for download from one, and lets say one paused download at 50% and the other is starting brom begining, if they both get some downloading, is the seeder PC uploading files from multiple RANDOM places at once? Also if 100 pc connect to 5 seeders, thats 20 per seeder, is his hdd getting huge workload
2. Does reading files wear out HDD? Or is it just writing?
Everything in the first 2/3 of the episode was describing kazaa/napster. The important (differentiating) part of bittorrent is that it breaks files into chunks and treats each of those chunks like pages of a book. The server (seeder) only uploads page 1/x until it starts seeing page 1 out in the wild...once it knows other users are sharing page 1, it moves on to page 2, etc. This ensures that leechers don't kill the torrent by taking the first whole copy.
Thanks for pronouncing uTorrent like it should have! None of my friends believe me that its micro torrent not "U"torrent.... now i can show them thsi vid of yours! Thanks Linus!
I thought it was pronounced "Mu"Torrent based on the Greek letter.
Does this file sharing software stuff still work? I thought it was more difficult these days to do... thinking that the file sharing would be blocked?
If I stop downloading/seeding and then findish downloading/seeding later on do I create a problem for other downloaders?
i keep a strict rule on seeding. at least i seed 3:1 amount of data before i close it
I leeched once kill me now
+kevin_supersonic LMFAO thats like me with every download :C
+Sandranil Biswas same
I leach all the time and don't even feel bad
I don't be a scumbag leecher all the time, if I leave a torrent to download and go AFK, and the torrent gets downloaded before I get back to the keyboard my internet bandwidth still contributes to seeding the torrent, so all the naysayers can fuck off. I don't have an optic lightspeed internet to begin with, I'm not gonna waste time on seeding everything, all the time.
I never knew I was a leecher, sorry guys
I've got a couple of questions for consideration. First, what is with no CD/DVD in PC case? What do you do if you want this? Outboard? Next when you have no disc and you have a problem with the PC what do you use to fix the problem without a disc. Is it possible to have or open the case to install a disc?
Linus explain to me what is Intel's Transactional Synchronization cant found any information on it or clear ones!!
It's not leeching if you do it to prevent global warming
WAHH. Everything leaves a carbon footprint. Just stop eating meat, get a VPN, and seed, you parasite.
@@chrisramirez12345 stop eating meat? what does that have to do with leaching?
@@thelegend8570 Because the livestock industry has the largest environmental effect. www.fao.org/gleam/results/en/ Hence, to prevent global warming.
BitTorrents have come a long way in the last 10 years. I remember using Bit Tornado back in high school (2004) and it would take HOURS for an album and each torrent opened a new window for the download.
waow
Theoretically, can this be used to keep defunct online services online? Like, say, the PS3/PSP/VITA stores?
i want more information about quadro cards, i work with 3d program and i want to know if is realy better work is quadro card to this programs or the gammer cards qith more gb are better
For new released files especially big batches are indeed usually shared quickly but for old big single files, their seeders availability is very low to non-existant. So direct downloads from file sharing sites are definitely much better.
I never realized how “AAAAHHHH!!!” Linus’s voice was when he was younger.
does having torrent software in pc makes computer damage??? i mean i have some issues with my pc..is BitTorrent software making pc damaged???
i am a leecher.. not proud to say,but hey what the heck am i supposed to do when my max dl speed is 1.2mb/s and my upload is 100kb/s?? if i try to seed,i wont be able to access any webpages,or in fact any web service. fml right?
Linus : "Speaking of...."
Me : "okay, MOVING ON..."
I leech because f*ck how everyone else feels
+BoilingHotCoffee I fucking hate boiling-hot coffee! I HATE YOU.
+Dinesh Seervi GO 5TB REMOVABLE SSDS!
How is the seed and peer location given to others? Is the ip address of seeds and peers stored in the torrent files? How does the torrent downloading program know where to get the file fragments from?
is 650 power supply good for my i54670kand GTX760tf ? also it is 80 +bronze.
I think I've used but torrent legally maybe 5 times. Otherwise it was for pirating. I don't consider pirating ethical but I also don't care as I am downloading a copy of a copy. Not taking anyone's income.
You're still preventing the original creator from receiving profit for their work.
RedWolf95
If I like what they make I will usually pay them in some way. If I torrent music I buy merchandise, if I torrent a game and like it, I buy it. Though you're right, I'm not arguing that piracy is ok.. I just don't see much harm in it.
RedWolf95 Just because a person torrents copyrighted content doesn't mean that person would have bought the content if they could not torrent it.
If you would of purchased the material you downloaded from utorrent, if it were not possible to pirate it, then they lost income.
RedWolf95 In cases of a few movies, I've purchased the DVD, but still downloaded the pirate version because it's just more convenient to watch. Crazy, isn't it?
Horray! Now do a bitcoin episode
Did that ages ago
you can check before you ask. Not that hard...
AceSim Gaming you expect the average linus fan to check lol, look at the comments to see how most people on here are not very bright ;P
Seriously derped, my bad! :D
wasteofusername1 I try not to read RUclips comments. It's a very scary place.
I was downloading one file for 5 days one time. From single seeds appearing from time to time. There were lots of peers waiting with me. I became a seed. I closed it and leeched because I have no feelings.
I would like to help with upload but if i upload to much i get a notice from my ISP and get throttled down or my modem reboots none stop for 8 hours.
Bittorrent isnt a internet protocol. It uses the Peer to Peer protocol suite (P2PP) which is a bunch of different protocols. Bittorrent is just the application used.
Lol "micro-torrent", in so many years I've never heard anyone call it that, just sounded so weird xD
***** Either way they're both still better than micro-torrent xD
nVr yeah especially while showing the side showing µTorrent. a greek letter is no black magic in the end :D
when i search for utorrent in windows start menu i type "u" but nothing appear. i have to type torrent without that micro symbol in order to find it.. come on!
aboalwi Works fine for me.
***** HAHA NICE MAFUYU PIC
Hey dude you saved my arse. i was trying to re download my photoshop(which i already had) and you halved the time it took me to download load it! your a life saver
480P is like 720p already. What camera did you use?
Camera technologies evolve, pixel density goes with... I remember that in 2010 1080p was a bit pixely on RUclips...
1:06 - Hungary!
Thanks to Linus... Now I know why my 100GBs of data got used up after downloading a 500MB game via torrent
Can p2p be used as a substitute for cloud computing? instead of that data being stored in one massive server, somehow it's split across peers in the same way that downloadable files are. is that possible?
uTorrent has gone bloatware lately.
seriously guys use something else
I heard it has an Bitcoin miner build in, and juegging from the performance I get when it's on, it's probably true.
So what do you recommend? I also noticed after the most recent update it has ads now..
Syamil Naufal Right now I really recommend Tixati for a small no bullshit client or qBitTorrent
skullhacks78 Thanks for the fast reply man! Will try qBitTorrent.
Just4Games It had not bittorrent miner. People who downloaded client from third-party sites got bitcoin miner.
Hi Linus, and that other guy. I would really appreaciate you explaining the difference in all of the different WD hard drive types (like; green, red, blue and so on) in one of your videos.
great idea.
This guys life is default at 1.25 speed
i would like to seed my downloads but after seeding alot my isp called and said that there was a lot of activity going on in my connection. i was uploading alot by the seeds and i was afraid of getting into trouble with copyright laws since i download lots of movies.
How well could I expect a torrent to work if I just wanted to privately seed a few rather large files over to a single peer? I ask because I do collaborations with a friend where we both record our own perspectives of a game we play, but one of us has to send the other the videos to be edited, and as such most other file-sharing solutions are not terribly good. Skype has a tendency to drop the transfers, and they’re way too big for my Dropbox, so I’m curious how much better a torrent would perform, assuming we don’t try to leech each other for some stupid reason.
I know this is an old comment, but for anyone else wondering: these days I use Resilio Sync. It's free, runs a private torrent to allow you to share files between computers.
Why I love Kickass torrents!
that momment when you are a leecher but you had no idea how to "seed" in the first place :(
Man you are my hero! yet another awesome video! great going!
How long should i seed before deleting torrent so i dont feel guilty
Wait, it's MICRO torrent? Darn it, I've been calling it U torrent the whole time..
My upload speed is max 50kb/s compared to my download speed which is 1400 kb/s so im an unintentional leecher :'( sorry world. P. S. I leech during the night.
+Kentrt That's normal.
if u didnt limit ur upload speed, it just meant there's not much leechers/downloaders needs ur upload
I'm writing this just as I heard the leecher part. I should be considered one, i have an internet connection speed of 1,2mb/s Download and around 600-700 Upload if I'm not wrong. My whole NETWORK is cut into 3. So we have one router directly connected to one PC and the less is through Wi-Fi, lets to some math and we get 3 PC's with an OVERALL download speed of 1.2mb/s thats 400kb/s each and less than 200 Upload speed. Not everyone has a 250mb/s connection or Google Fiber.
so how long should i wait after i download to stop in order to avoid being leecher?
because yes, my upload speed is poor
1:1 ratio is good
TIL the u in uTorrent means micro
+CuroeGamer No: the µ in µTorrent means micro.
Catcrumbs Sorry for not wanting to check a unicode chart.
CuroeGamer
Don't let it happen again.
What? Download movies and music? Me? Never!
That totally was awesome. I definitely didn't have a clear idea what a torrent was, and I had a nervousness about them. You quickly cleared it all up great job
Nicely explained.
Do you guys have any vidoe on S/PDIF?
I am a leecher and I am ashamed
@@ObamaSexGaming2007 LMAO
Your profile pic checks out
In Australia, we get like under 500gb of downloads including uploads (unless you want to pay ridiculously high prices), dont hate us if we dont seed, we really dont have a choice =[
You could always get seedbox for 20$ (1gbps shared, privat trackers) and you will be fine.
Australia is so far behind in internet speeds and download caps, it makes me so sad...
Maliken Are you serious? dodo, exetel, vaya, spintel, ozlinked, optus, iprimus offer *UNLIMITED DATA* on ADSL2+.
gillo2011 Dont worry, Super expensive 4G/LTE Advanced/5G will superseed out super expensive ADSL broadband. Thanks Malcolm Turnbull!
andrewszombie Latest Liberal plans is to use the existing copper network and not upgrade it to fiber to the home, all the money is going to satellite internet for remote locations! :(
Is it possible for a torrent host to redirect a torrent to inflict a ddos attack on sombody?
if somebody is pirating will this affect me if im helping the download or if they download a virus will my pc get it too?
Ur uploading, they are getting ur file so no.
I don't seed for anything! Lol.
EMPiiRE *We do not seed* Greyjoy motto.
First minutes sound like how corona virus operates,
Yes, 6 years later, its utube
So wait if u download music and or movies off of bit torrent it's illigal??????
What did Linus say at the end?
"micro torrent" - My life has been a lie D:
Hungarian people at 1:07!
;) hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cs%C3%ADksomly%C3%B3i_b%C3%BAcs%C3%BA
English: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cs%C3%ADksomly%C3%B3_Pilgrimage
No mention on the virus problems from torrents Linus?
my relatives say that it is illegal to use, is it true?
In eastern Europe torrents don't have a bad name at all. In fact, they are mostly the norm. You use them when you want to try out a game or watch a movie that you missed in the cinemas. You 'muricans could afford to buy every game on steam that releases on steam, and spend 10$ every other day to go to the cinema, but not everyone has that luxury when one game is a tenth of your salary.
And don't tell me that I'm hurting the game studios I like by not buying their games. If I really like a game, I would always save some money and buy it, same goes for good movies.
*By downloading games first, to see if they are worth the money I'm supporting the studios I like, and not giving money to ones I don't.*
Eastern Europeans are generally known by the rest of the word as thieves, we just dont say it when you're around to avoid hurting youre feelings. Upsetsomeone in the Balkans and we can have another world was on ou hands, all cause they cant take a fucking joke, so that might help explain it and oops, i feel like i said sopmething i wasnt supposed to.
RAZOR1911, RELOADED, SKIDROW, R.G Mechanics, Black Box, FLT, ^^nos Team^^.
If I left anyone else out please feel free to comment.
Fitgirl
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@@aadhithyanb that's not a release group
Where is the big data link?
I like saying "u"torrent more, but yay to you for saying it the correct way, no one seems to know that symbol means "micro"
Im a leecher because my upload is "512 kbps" so it would take forever to seed plus it would basically destroy all of the other connections in the house.
I don't seed my torrents.
Mackan same
I think the real issue more systems aren't distributed by torrents now is that many people seem to think "torrent" means "piracy" which it obviously doesn't.. but that thought will never go away in my opinion.
seeding can be illegal in some instances right?
i'm a leecher. don't judge me.
no seeding, no torrent, just go to hell >:(
Ciaran Hufsky
rude :(
lol
Oh Torrent God, forgive me.
Pootis Mann don't worry, you're forgiven. Believe in me, believe on my torrent religion
+Athaariq Ardiansyah
I hope. I found out I am also a leecher.
Also utorrent is in bed with copyright people like the mpaa, don't use it.
how?
BrieoRobino Look it up.
patq911 So you don't know?
thats because most torrents are pirated content
BrieoRobino
There's might not be any proof, that's because the program is closed source, nobody can read the source code to find out. So it could be sending information to copyright/DMCA enforcers without you knowing. That's why it's best to use an open source client like Transmission, Deluge, or QBittorent, that way the developer can't sneak anything into the code to breach your privacy.
whats the best vpn for torrenting?
I want to run the next gen games on ultra settings at no lag. I have like a £370 price budget and my APU is AMD A8 6600K.
what card should I get?
I'm talking about GPU'S
UTorrent ❌
WeTorrent ✔️
*Communism intensifies*
OurTorrent
qbittorrent gang
so more the seeds more fast is its downloading speed?
Im against piracy, but when for instance I cant get game of thrones in my country on the account of HBO not available and they wont give me online streaming options, I have nothing else to do but download illegally. The other day, I wanted to listen to some music online. Only to find out that Spotify, Pandora, and other music sites are not available for my country, what do you expect me to do?
daniyal siddiqui exactly, in the UK i pay for sky atlantic, it's the channel that shows Game of thrones and other HBO programs, but it's always behind, so i just download them.