Are Torrents a Tool for Predicting the Future?
Music and movie downloaders have more than once proven to be on the bleeding edge of connected consumer tech.
File-sharing blogs are currently abuzz about a new generation of BitTorrent services — sites like Furk.net or Btaccel.com — that allow users to offload their P2P downloads to the cloud by offering something like a personal file-sharing web service. Search for a file, let the service download it for you from other people's hard drives, and then transfer it from the cloud to any device of your liking. File-sharing web services like these may sound like yet another headache for Hollywood and the music industry, but they may provide an interesting case study for the adoption of cloud technologies by consumers.
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