ext_82130 ([identity profile] realqueenbetty.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] boy_touching 2005-04-11 11:03 pm (UTC)

Yeah. My favorite on Mutter is probably Sonne. Awesome track.

It's just a P2P client, which, for the most part, means users download from one another off their PCs instead of a server. Servers, by the way, are special computers where websites and their content are stored. You download, or "leech", bits of files from other users and at the same time upload what you have to others who need what you've got. It's a rather efficient system for large file transfers.

The problem with this system is that you can get "stuck" if there's no one uploading, or "seeding", the parts you need, but that doesn't happen too often with popular files. See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent) for more info.

Betty

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