Tribler – A Nightmare On Copyright Holders’ Street

February 13, 2012 by Yonah
Filed under: Announcements & Events, Downloads, Entertainment Industry, File-Sharing Programs, Networks & Services

The ever increasing threats of the copyright owners towards websites, operators and internet users regardless the extent of their legality and legitimacy might also have generated positive effects such as stimulating the innovative developers out there who are forced to come up with new, amazing ideas to guarantee a free Internet for us all. Such an idea is Tribler.

Due to its decentralized nature, Tribler may just as well be considered an invincible file-sharing client.“The only way to take it down is to take the Internet down,” the client’s developer said.

Taking more than five years into developing, the piece of software has experienced 100% uptime since its launch, claimed the researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

What sets Tribler apart from other clients is that its technology is based on the true power of peer-to-peer, meaning that it requires no intermediate servers; the computer communicates directly with other PCs running Tribler.

“Our key scientific quest is facilitating unbounded information sharing,” Tribler creator Dr. Pouwelse told TorrentFreak in an interview.

“We simply don’t like unreliable servers. With Tribler we have achieved zero-seconds downtime over the past six years, all because we don’t rely on shaky foundations such as DNS, web servers or search portals.”

As we know, the efforts of closing down Megaupload were the first of their kind in Internet’s history. However, in the case of decentralized clients like Tribler, Joe Morganelli, founder of copyright consulting firm Morganelli Group, admits that using the full power of the peer-to-peer technology will forever change the way BitTorrent is understood.

“With no central location it will make going after individuals so much more important,” Morganelli told BGR, while admitting that this approach has not been very effective in the past.

”The crusade against a normal individual has had very little effect since there are millions of people. With the central location, it makes for an easy lawsuit,” he added.

Update: Last time we checked the website welcomed visitors with this message “Sorry: limited website due to high popularity”.