

In the Napster/Kazaa world these are users who have nothing in their "share" folder, but are always downloading from other users who do. The bugbear for all file sharing services are users who take but do not give. You may have a URL to it, it may be on a web page along with many others, or a specialized "dot torrent search website" may have dug it up for you. How you get the locator file is up to you - someone may have emailed it to you.

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The Bit Torrent experience starts when you already have the "locator" file (a "dot torrent" file) that tells the Bit Torrent client how to go about fetching the real file. The second problem is already solved in so many different ways that given one key design decision in Bit Torrent - publishing link to BT offered files on regular web pages - there is simply no need to solve it at all. The first problem is reliable and efficient distribution of a file among clients, the other problem is indexing and locating all the files that are being offered on the service.

The designer of Bit Torrent realized that there are two different problems with file sharing software. What Bit Torrent is NOT is a file indexing and searching service, which makes it very different from the old Napster, or Kazaa, eMule, eDonkey, IRC sharing, or even using google to look for executables. Bit Torrent is a remarkably small and neat piece of Unix/Python software engineering (with windows ports) that solves several (but not all) problems existing on almost all past file sharing systems. I had a chance to play around with Bit Torrent today, and came away impressed.
