Dmitry Linkov

Bittorent is going to tip

January 11th, 2007. Published under General. No Comments.

After reading the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, I began to notice signals of epidemics.

For example BitTorrent networks. I knew about them a long time ago, it’s a peer to peer protocol networks for sharing big size files. They are immune to legal problems because of some technical specifications but it doesn’t matter right now. The epidemic started when the Lost serial appeared on the TV. Everybody started to watch it – everybody started to share it. And torrents were the superb way of sharing them. After that a lot of other serials are recorded, translated by enthusiasts and shared – again through torrents. And I started to notice that a lot of friends of mine begin to use and to discuss it!

Want to know more about torrents? Check this wikipedia article.