Issues to be resolved in Torrents—Future Revolutionised File Sharing
Sachin Arun Thanekar, R. B. Patel, Baldev Singh · AIP conference proceedings · 2010
Torrenting is a highly popular peer to peer file sharing activity that allows participants to send and receive files from other computers. As it is an advantageous technique as compare to traditional client server file sharing in terms of time, cost and speed, some drawbaks are also there. Content unavailability, lack of anonymity, leechers, cheaters and download speed consistency are the major problems to sort out. Efforts are needed to resolve these problems and to make this better application. Legal issues are also one of the measure factors of consideration. BitTorrent metafiles themselves do not store copyrighted data. Whether the publishers of BitTorrent metafiles violate copyrights by linking to copyrighted material is controversial. Various countries have taken legal action against websites that host BitTorrent trackers. Eg. Supernova.org, Torrentspy. Efforts are also needed to make such a useful protocol legal.