Content Delivery

In order to allow the transfer of bit torrent files between the many peers on the bit torrent networks, the concept of web seeding was introduced. This is by far one of the most important aspects of the bit torrent content delivery. Basically, what this involved, was a web server that maintained the .torrent or tracker files. From this server, one could visit the site and look for the file they wanted and download the tracker file.

While still today, many people have opted to utilize the HTTP download protocol, but some people still prefer to save money. To do so, a programmer who created a new public use program, could upload the .torrent file to a web server, give a description and then when someone wanted to download that file. They would get a bit torrent client, download the .torrent file then actually download it from the developer’s own personal computer. This saved a lot of money in terms of monthly bandwidth allotments that most if not all web servers regulate.

Then to further help the network, each client on the network sends out an RSS feed of all the sharable files on their hard rive with the rest of the world. This would allow someone to connect with others in the network, by querying the RSS feed for the hash key of that particular bit torrent file.

This RSS feed is also encrypted and the hash key allows for uncorrupted file exchanges. Changing a file by just 1 bit, can drastically change the hash key, and therefore helped prevent someone from inserting a virus into an already released bit torrent file.

Furthermore, thanks to the use of an RSS feed, any site who uses an XML file can bring up the torrents and make them available to the rest of the world without even having the particular .torrent tracker file on their servers.

Today, many site use integrated PHP and API programming to make the use of the RSS feed that is created by the bit torrent network’s protocol. The main reason is very obvious. That is to simply help spread the use of the bit torrent network as well as the ability to help spread a file out quicker and easier which allows for faster downloads of virtually any type of bit torrent file.

The internet is about community, people and files. The largest community on the web today is that of the bit torrent network. Regardless of which bit torrent client you are using, if it is on the bit torrent protocol, then you are part of something big. Very big in fact. The bit torrent network has such a large network, and it is only getting larger and stronger by the day. The larger it gets, the easier it will be to share content with the world.

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