The Internet’s perfect swarm

BitTorrent software utilizes the Internet’s most valued asset – the user community – to share the burden of increasingly larger downloads, such as movies and games. An unlimited number of users in a network can “swarm” a file and simultaneously consume it, divide it, and pass it along, making the process fast and efficient.

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