p2pnet.net News:- Rumours that the new Opera browser release would support BitTorrent were true.

Opera Watch was reporting that an OBT was on the way and now, “Integrating this popular file-downloading technology in the Opera browser offers the end user a faster download process by utilizing full bandwidth and reducing the chance of in-transfer delay when multiple users download the same file,” says the company.

“BitTorrent has been on Opera’s radar screen for more than a year,” it states.

“The massive response, with more than 100 downloads per second, dealt a technical knock-out to Opera’s servers,” says Christen Krogh, vp of engineering. “With BitTorrent, users would have had an alternative download mechanism.”

Opera hopes to make it easier for users to download the “large amount of legal material available, such as Linux software and computer game demos,” it says pointing out that the new version will, of course, also be offered as a torrent file.

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support BitTorrent - Opera and BitTorrent?, p2pnet, July 6, 2005

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