* what is bittorrent? - an alternative to ftp for high demand serving of files.
   * where is the authority web site for it?  ''Google is your friend: http://bittorrent.com/''
   * why would someone use it? - because the bandwidth available scales with the number of users
   * what does the tcllib code provide? - The only [tcllib] module so far is [bee], which provides code to (de)serialize data from/to the '''b'''-encoding used by BitTorrent to encode the message exchanges by participiants, and also its tracker-files.


Bittorent clients are not clients in the strict sense, for fastest downloads, they require incoming connections from other peers.  You usually have to configure your router/firewall to allow some ports to be routed to you.  This is usually done by a web-based control panel on your router/firewall.

Bittorrent annonated specification [http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification] 

* Are there any tcl-based bittorrent clients? 

[Zarutian] 13. may 2005: would it be a good idea to make an bittorrent vfs?
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