Tribler was created by university researchers at the Delft University of Technology, who are trying to improve peer-to-peer technology.
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The core software is free and open source software based on the Tribler platform, licensed under the LGPL 2.1. It is based on the same core as the Tribler TV application. It allows one to watch BitTorrent-hosted peer-to-peer digital media distribution of video on demand and plays live Tribler streaming media. The SwarmPlayer is a Python-based BitTorrent Internet TV viewer. Tribler borrows bandwidth capacity from connected nodes regarded as helpful to boost the download speed of files. Another feature of Tribler is a limited form of social networking and donation of upload capacity.
This feature is based on collaborative filtering, also featured on websites such as Last.fm and. After a dozen downloads the Tribler software can roughly estimate the download taste of the user and The software includes the ability to recommend content. Tribler adds keyword search ability to the BitTorrent file download protocol using a gossip protocol, somewhat similar to the eXeem network which was shut down in 2005. Because the custom onion network does not use Tor exit nodes, it is enhanced to make every Tribler user to function as a relay. Users can load any clearnet torrent, and by leaving the box for anonymity ticked, the files will be routed through other Tribler. In 2014, with the release of version 6.3.1, a custom built-in onion routing network was introduced as part of Tribler. In 2009, the development team behind Tribler stated that their efforts for the coming years were focused on the integration of Tribler with television hardware. The first version of Tribler was an enhancement of ABC aka Yet Another BitTorrent Client. The name Tribler stems from the word tribe, referring to the usage of social networks in this P2P client.
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