Comments on: BitTorrent and the Long Tail http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/12/04/bittorrent-and-the-long-tail/ the personal blog of Stuart Colville covering modern web development techniques and best practices Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Raphael http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2008/12/04/bittorrent-and-the-long-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-64701 Raphael Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:32:46 +0000 http://muffinresearch.co.uk/?p=410#comment-64701 Yeah, that's a huge problem of Bittorrent. Back in the old days (2003 or so) I used WinMX (P2P) for downloading music. Often I would search for a certain song, download it from one peer, and then browse his collection for other interesting stuff. By doing this I found some really nice music I would never had looked for. Some of this stuff was so obscure that recommendation systems like Last.FM would never suggest it to me. Unfortunately, with Bittorrent you only find what you are actively searching for. Yeah, that’s a huge problem of Bittorrent.
Back in the old days (2003 or so) I used WinMX (P2P) for downloading music. Often I would search for a certain song, download it from one peer, and then browse his collection for other interesting stuff. By doing this I found some really nice music I would never had looked for. Some of this stuff was so obscure that recommendation systems like Last.FM would never suggest it to me.

Unfortunately, with Bittorrent you only find what you are actively searching for.

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