![]() "At TU Delft most of PhDs and researchers are Dutch. if I could choose any country to work in, it would be Holland," he adds.From his experiences at Amsterdam's Vrije University, where he earned his Master's degree, Garbacki notes that TU Delft is lagging behind in terms of internationalization. "I'm impressed by the professionalism of the people here. ![]() They don't have the resources to let students use expensive hardware."He also praises the Dutch work ethic. Garbacki: "In Warsaw, the study is more theoretically oriented. The Tribler team beat off stiff competition to win the lucrative (€ 10,000) Vosko prize for business and innovation in 2006, giving further indication of its massive potential.Garbacki says he chose TU Delft because "the peer-to-peer networks group here is one of the biggest in Europe, if not the world." He finds there are more opportunities to pursue practical work here, compared to universities in Poland. And there was more good news elsewhere, as less reactionary critics also endorsed the new technology. Tribler downloads tripled in the wake of the reports. If one person downloads illegal files from a website, does that mean you should shut down all websites?"But, as they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity. We're providing a platform, but cannot be held responsible for misuse of the system. he's also pragmatic about the motives of the press, saying: "Journalists will always go for controversy. "the goal from the beginning was the distribution of legal stuff, for free,". Headlines like, 'Dutch government funds research for distribution of illegal porn', appeared in the press last month, and while Garbacki is eager to disassociate Tribler from illegal file sharing. Illegal pornNot everyone loves Tribler, however. It will surely also interest many people to know that downloads are potentially twice as fast with Tribler. In future, we will watch the computer screen instead of the TV."Another possibility is to use these networks as very distributed servers for local storage websites could be hosted for little cost on friends' computers. "It's the next generation solution for the distribution of archived and live content. "The system is extremely scalable, it could be used for distributing homemade movies on the small scale, up to entire libraries of e-books on a larger scale," Garbacki says. "This is safer, because you download from people you can trust, and a rating system increases the chances that what you download will be what you expect," Garbacki explains.This small network of friends then makes up part of a larger network, which is part of an even bigger network, and so on. In contrast with existing systems, Tribler is not anonymous, however, and this allows users to form groups with friends and users with similar interests. The revolution is growing Tribler software has been downloaded 60,000 times in its first 3 months.The Tribler system has been described as 'social file sharing'. ![]() everyone pays a little bit, instead of one person paying a lot."It's a less commercial, more democratic way of distributing live media," Garbacki says. "Anybody with an Internet connection can broadcast live video to millions of users."With Tribler, rather than viewers streaming from a single site (which with a lot of viewers, requires lots of bandwidth, and would cost the creator a lot of money), they download from other users, thus distributing the costs. One of Tribler‘s most remarkable features is that it can transform an ordinary computer into a TV channel, allowing independent artists to broadcast to the world via the web."Currently, costs hinder many independent artists, but with Tribler the cost, in terms of bandwidth, is distributed among users," says Garbacki, who also spends his summers working at IBM's research labs in New York. There is however much more to it than that. ![]() His new program, Tribler, could revolutionize the way we use the Internet.Tribler is, at first glance, a p2p (peer-to-peer) file sharing system.
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