Nothing spoils a nice, legal BitTorrent downloading session like leechers. People turn off their uploads and just download, killing the entire point of BitTorrent and slowing the speeds for everyone else. The whole point of BitTorrent is to share your bandwidth, you jerks! Well, some smarties at Harvard have come up with a new piece of P2P software that punishes leechers and rewards seeders.
Tribler uses a "currency" system that provides people who seed files with extra bandwidth, giving them faster downloads. It calls the currency "TV watching minutes," forcing selfish leechers to wait longer to get their sweet, sweet entertainment. It seems like it would be a cool setup for both legal and less-than-legal P2P endeavors.
Harvard, via CrunchGear
