Legal threats against BitTorrent trackers and indexing sites like thepiratebay.org and Mininova are common in today’s digital distribution world, Government’s, Law Enforcement Agencies, Private Copyright Do Gooders (BREIN) alike are on a mission to rid the Internet of websites that they see as the root of bittorrent media distribution. The BitTorrent protocol relies heavily on torrent indexing websites so that users can locate and download media, Cubit aims to change this practice though by adding fully decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities to Azureus as a standard plugin.

One of the downsides of the bittorrent protocol over previous P2P applications was the fact you couldn’t search the network for content, this is what cubit a plugin for azureus aims to change.

Below Is What The Plugin Authors have to say.

What is it?

Cubit is a system that provides fully decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities to Azureus as a standard plugin. Approximate search means that you can use Cubit to find a movie, song or artist even if you don’t know which spelling variation is used in the title or in her name. It gives you what you mean instead of what you asked for exactly, and returns the best results in the network in only a few seconds.

How does it work?

Cubit creates alongside BitTorrent a lightweight peer-to-peer network designed from the ground up to enable rapid and accurate approximate searches. It performs the searches without relying on any centralized components, and therefore is immune to legal and technical attacks targeting torrent aggregators. Additional technical details can be found in the approach section.

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After playing around with cubit for a while it became clear that the holy grail of bittorrent searches is still a long way off, the system does work but the content returned seems limited at the moment compared to other p2p search functions in clients like emule. Maybe future development’s of the plugin will bring true full search capabilities to the bittorrent protocol like we are used to in other clients, for now though i would stick with you favorite indexing site as Cubit simply doesn’t cut it.

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