The key new feature of this release is Tor-like anonymous Bittorrent downloading.<p>This is not using 'the' Tor network.<p>This software has build-in support for a fork of the Tor protocol. That network is tuned for Bittorrent. It uses UDP with integrated UDP puncturing. Full technical specification:<p><a href="https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/Anonymous-Downloading-and-Streaming-specifications" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/Anonymous-Downloadin...</a>
It's interesting to read their Wiki page. They have a timeline for Tribler [0]<p>2012: Tribler Mobile live streaming from a phone camera to potentially thousands<p>2011: Libswift accepted as an upcoming IETF Internet Standard<p>2010: Wikipedia.org uses our technology for live trial<p>2009: Large HD streaming trial with BBC<p>2008: Social network without servers and "easy" invites<p>2007: Our reputation system launched in the wild<p>2006: Tribler 1st released<p>2005: First Tribler code = social Bittorrent<p>2004: Slashdot for first time with largest Bittorrent study<p>They also have a 1h+ talk at the Stanford University [1] on 4th generation P2P technology.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQiLaKdzD0E" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQiLaKdzD0E</a>
Netflix and other high bandwidth content delivery services should have used Bittorrent from the very beginning, and now are hitting a lot of resistance from ISPs because of their stubbornness to use CDNs instead.<p>I predict that companies will not be quick to embrace technologies like these, because they are stuck with the legacy of the DMCA (and region coding) so the loss of net neutrality is inevitable.<p>I’m hopeful though that the tech community will anticipate this and come up with a metric for broadband that only measures p2p traffic. That way when Comcast and others claim to provide a certain connection speed, it can be trivially verified and consumers can steer clear of false advertising.<p>Also the public needs to be made aware that the primary cost of internet traffic is still long distance, basically anything that has to travel out over the backbone. The connection from your home to the ISP is a one-time cost. So p2p traffic like Bittorrent actually lowers overall costs for everyone by sending data over the backbone just once and then distributing it from the local caches on everyone’s hard drive in the same city. Eventually that cost will be so low as to approach free, which is why I think self-organizing meshnets and darknets are also inevitable.
I'm surprised Tribler is still alive. Years ago it kicked up a storm of publicity when it was published as a research project by the Delft University.
Sounds promising on paper (can't view at work) but I can't imagine this would be very fast method of getting data.<p>Just my $0.02, but BT is terrific for things too large for conventional download links. However, my experience with Tor has been that it's only performance for bite-sized data.<p>At Tor's current adoption rate, BT and Tor seem somewhat mutually exclusive.
Warning: under settings, "Tribler Profile" has a default nickname setting matching your hostname. Not great for anonymous streaming.<p>My networks status is shown as OK but the anonymity test is not downloading yet.<p>Getting Kubuntu fron the "Linux ISOs" channel worked, though it's labelled as not anonymous.
From what I see on the download page,<p><i>"no general anonymous downloads yet, trial-only"</i> ?<p><a href="http://www.tribler.org/download.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tribler.org/download.html</a>
The nicest feature to me is the serverless search. This week several torrent websites have been DDoSed and people doesn't know where to get their torrents from.
Is this similar to the Anomos program that died 6 years ago?<p><a href="https://anomos.info/" rel="nofollow">https://anomos.info/</a><p>Anomos would have required a tracker, like torrent, but had onion routing for downloads, I believe.
First reaction: Jeez. Not this shit again.<p>Second reaction: Whatever works. There are too many ideas for one problem to find and establish "the best". This is definitely not elegant, but let's see what it gets.