<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/06f04c23-ed58-4376-9395-986a54414c1b/91F77C29-D0A0-4461-A2BC-C970011FAD17/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-simulator-how-and-why-bittorrent-works/" href="http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-simulator-how-and-why-bittorrent-works/" style="font-size: 11px;">torrentfreak.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-simulator-how-and-why-bittorrent-works/"><DIV class='itemhead'> <h3><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-simulator-how-and-why-bittorrent-works/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to &quot;BitTorrent Simulator: How and Why BitTorrent works&quot;">BitTorrent Simulator: How and Why BitTorrent works</a></h3> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-simulator-how-and-why-bittorrent-works/"><DIV class='itemtext'> <p>BitTorrent is a great protocol to distribute large files. One of it’s main advantages is that every downloader starts sharing right away, even without having a full copy of the file.</p> <p><a id="more-652"></a></p> <p>Other key features of BitTorrent are:</p> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><strong>Rarest piece first</strong>: sending the rarest piece first to ensure its availability in the swarm</li> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><strong>Tit-for-tat sharing</strong>: what you give is what you get</li> <p><a href="http://aphid.org/btsim/">The BitTorrent simulator</a> is a nice graphical representation of <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/why-bittorrent-works/">how and why BitTorrent works</a>. </p> <p><a href="http://aphid.org/btsim/"><img src="http://torrentfreak.com//images/btsim.gif" alt="bittorrent simulator"></a></p> <p>via <a href="http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-149.html">p2pblog</a> </p> <!-- br--><!-- br--> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/91F77C29-D0A0-4461-A2BC-C970011FAD17/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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