I know I've mentioned this before, but I am going to start posting detailed information onto my weblog for inclusion in the topical pages that I am now building... BitTorrent is a decentralized, OSS download manager that optimizes downloads through p2p. A user offers a file for download on a regular HTTP server and sets up a BitTorrent server to manage the uploads. When a user selects a link to a bittorrent metafile in their web browser, the metafile is loaded into the BitTorrent client. The client will simultaneously download from the source HTTP server and any other clients that are currently sharing the same file. Once the download is started, the client will also begin to share the file it is currently downloading and will continue to do so until it is closed. 10:29:18 AM    comment []