Comments on: BitTorrent with Opera http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7853 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7853/comment-page-1#comment-33794 Reader's Write Wed, 08 Feb 2006 23:55:54 +0000 #comment-33794 Opera has a "simple" implementation of BitTorrent with not as many features. Its not intended to be a replacement for a fully-featured client, but to allow newer users to download torrented files just like any other file. They also previewed the technology a while back in Opera 8.02 or something. (http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/07/07/) Personally i wouldnt use it, but its good that Opera are trying to make p2p more acceptable and natural for the typical browser user. As for the remark on "Multi-purpose applications" - most browsers already are. Opera has built-in Mail, and Opera and Firefox both have built-in RSS readers... BitTorrent is just treated as another protocol, like HTTP and FTP. Opera has a “simple” implementation of BitTorrent with not as many features. Its not intended to be a replacement for a fully-featured client, but to allow newer users to download torrented files just like any other file. They also previewed the technology a while back in Opera 8.02 or something. (http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/07/07/)

Personally i wouldnt use it, but its good that Opera are trying to make p2p more acceptable and natural for the typical browser user.

As for the remark on “Multi-purpose applications” – most browsers already are. Opera has built-in Mail, and Opera and Firefox both have built-in RSS readers… BitTorrent is just treated as another protocol, like HTTP and FTP.

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