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BitTyrant is a BitTorrent client modified from the Java-based Azureus 2.5 code base. BitTyrant is designed to give preference to clients uploading to it fastest and limiting slower uploaders. It is free software and cross-platform, currently available for Windows, OS X, and Linux.
BitTyrant is a result of research projects at University of Washington and University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The paper describing how it works, "Do Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent?" sought to challenge the common belief that BitTorrent's "must upload to download" transfer protocol prevents strategic clients from gaming the system.
As a client app, it has demonstrated an average increase in download speed by 70% over a standard BitTorrent client. Non-BitTyrant leechers in the swarm generally receive a decrease in download speed. Even so, if all clients are BitTyrant, high capacity peers are more effectively utilized, allowing for an overall increase in download speed. However, there is a caveat; if high capacity peers are involved in many swarms, low capacity peers lose some performance.
Like Azureus, BitTyrant also supports the use of plugins. Plugins from Azureus, such as 3D View and Safepeer, can be used.
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Official Website: www.bittyrant.com
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