How P2P is finding legitimacy as BitTorrent sites struggle to change
Devindra Hardawar discusses the opposing trends of illegal versus more legitimate uses of P2P technology.
More importantly, what’s interesting is…
The Pirate Bay is using a combination of DHT (a de-centralized P2P network) and PEX (peer exchange, a method for gathering peers) to share files directly between peers without the use of a traditional tracker. They’re also doing away with torrent files by offering “magnet links”, which send torrent data directly to BitTorrent clients.