Bug#176733: ITP: bittorrent -- scatter-gather network file transfer

["Michael Janssen" <jamuraa@base0.net>]

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-01-14
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : bittorrent
  Version         : 3.1
  Upstream Author : Bram Cohen <bram@bitconjurer.net>
* URL             : http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent
* License         : MIT
  Description     : scatter-gather network file transfer

BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files. It's extremely
easy to use - downloads are started by clicking on
hyperlinks.  Whenever more than one person is downloading at
once they send pieces of the file(s) to each other, thus
relieving the central server's bandwidth burden.  Even with
many simultaneous downloads, the upload burden on the
central server remains quite small, since each new
downloader introduces new upload capacity.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux odo 2.4.19 #1 Thu Oct 3 01:04:44 CDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C