- Torrent Swapper
Infobox_Software
name = Torrent Swapper
caption = Screenshot of Torrent Swapper
developer = John Freemonth
latest_release_version = 1.0
latest_release_date =August 9 ,2006
operating_system =Cross-platform
genre =BitTorrent client
website = [http://bit-torrent.sourceforge.net bit-torrent.sourceforge.net]Torrent Swapper is an
open source (MIT License )BitTorrent client . Theirsourceforge home page states:Lightweight python based 4th. generation bittorrent client with social networking, recommendation, tag-based navigation, moderation, and real-time streaming based on the
Tribler BitTorrent client (www.tribler.org).Torrent Swapper is written in python, making it platform independent. It is also available as an executable for
Microsoft Windows . The program is used to download files using Peer-To-Peer technology, in this case using the Bittorrent protocol. Torrent Swapper is comparable toVuze , which is Java-based, but boasts some unique features like Amazon-like recommendations to get interesting files, doubling the download speed by using the upload capacity of friends, real-time P2P file sharing with P2P video streaming, and showing the locations of seeders / leechers of the same content with city-level accuracy on a world map.ee also
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Comparison of BitTorrent software External links
* [http://bit-torrent.sourceforge.net/ Torrent Swapper]
* [http://www.tribler.org/ Tribler Social BitTorrent client]
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