Talk:tribler

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What's with the "See Also" section? Torrent Swapper hasn't been updated in 6 years and has nothing to do with Tribler50.43.86.20 (talk) 01:47, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Who is this article aimed at?

It isn't understandable, I suggest, by anyone who wants to understand what Tribler is. If anyone understands what the article is saying, they don't need to read this article.

Like so many Wikipedia entries, people are talking to their own 'community' and not trying to involve the uninitiated. Cannonmc (talk) 02:18, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Reads like an ad with too much hype.

I couldn't help but feel that this article goes a little past the facts. Such claims as "immune to limiting external action, for example, government restraint" and "the fact that its index is impossible to take down". While these have references they simple are not true claims to make. They do not take into acount factors such as filtering imposed by service providers (if Tribler packets can just be filtered out making it unusible I would not consider it immune to government restraint). In the same way it's not impossible to take it down. Just quite difficult. If enough people leach on the network it will revert to simply being a bittorrent client (as mentioned in their FAQ) and if enough people leach on the torrents they too will basically collapse. In short I feel that this article is making some wild claims. However I'm hard pressed to work out how to fix the article. Input would be great. Thank you. 80.7.27.189 (talk) 06:32, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Tribler is currently not fully anonymous

After reading this change (and the remove), I think that this article should be updated to mention that Tribler want to be anonymous (it's a project), but is not fully currently. This may avoid bad surprises to users coming from Wikipedia. Talks on Reddit about Tribler. For example the introduction sentence "Tribler is an open source anonymous peer-to-peer decentralized BitTorrent client." should be changed to something like "Tribler is an open source peer-to-peer decentralized BitTorrent client, with a project to be anonymous under certain circumstances." --Dadu (talk) 14:17, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

After reading more reddit users feedbacks, I feel it's urgent to update the article, so I do it.--Dadu (talk) 14:40, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Transparency: From Linuxjournal

" From 2008 onwards several million Euro of funding are awarded for P2P research at Delft by the European Union FP7 research program. Read more about the EU funding. The Dutch technology foundation STW is providing additional funding for Tribler until mid 2009. Read more about the ​STW funding ." https://www.tribler.org/background/ " From the FreeBand website: Freeband is a joint initiative of the Dutch Government, knowledge institutions and industry and, as a research programme, forms part of the Government action plan 'Competing with ICT Competencies' (CIC). The programme's objective is to raise knowledge regarding modern telecommunications within Dutch knowledge institutions (universities and institutes) to an international top level. Within this objective, the programme focuses specifically on the enormous new challenges emerging in telecommunications. The development of knowledge relating to '4G' or 'fourth generation telecommunications' in particular will be given a lot of attention. The I-Share project investigates the sharing of resources in what we coined virtual communities consisting of heterogeneous and transient nodes and networks. Virtual communities are (virtually bounded) groups of nodes that are willing to share resources and to help each other for the benefit of individual and system performance. As a particular case, we consider the sharing of resources for processing multimedia streams (e.g., compression), as this faces the sharing nodes with significant challenges in terms of the volume of data, the processing requirements, and security. The I-Share project concentrates on mechanisms for trust, for willingness to share, and for resource discovery in virtual communities (work package 1), as well as mechanisms for distributed and layered content-processing algorithms utilizing the resource sharing in virtual communities (work package 2). Demonstrations and validation of the developed algorithms and software are also planned. Tribler was won the 2006 Vosko Trophy for Business and Innovation! We are very proud of this prestigious award and very happy with the beautiful artwork and 10.000 euros." https://www.tribler.org/triblerFunding/

More: http://web.archive.org/web/20080225120756/www.tribler.org/P2P-Next/19Million-for-P2P "Early last year, the EU granted 14 million euros to P2P-Next, a consortium of 21 media companies and universities, including the BBC, Delft University of Technology, the European Broadcasting Union, Lancaster University, Markenfilm, Pioneer Digital Design Centre Limited and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The purpose of the grant is “to develop a Europe-wide 'next-generation' Internet television distribution system, based on P2P and social interaction”. (An additional 5 million euros is also being donated by some of the P2P-Next partners, for a total of 19 million euros.) The project has a four-year span and will include technical trials of new media applications on many devices."

So far for the quotes. so the question remains: Would you trust the dutch government or an an institution that introduces Digital_Services_Act?

"The Truth is out there" ( The X-Files --198.145.230.54 (talk) 13:44, 28 July 2025 (UTC)