BitTorrent is taking another crack at solving the age-old problem of pushing really big files around with the beta launch of SoShare, a utility that will let users share bundles of files up to 1TB in size. That's a pretty massive amount of data to be sharing over the internet, more than many users' hard drives, but BitTorrent says that SoShare's focus will be on creative professionals and others who deal with transferring huge files on a daily basis.
As for how the service is implemented, BitTorrent told us that SoShare allows for distributed transfers (ala the standard BitTorrent protocol) while also maintaining one master copy in the cloud for constant access. However, it's not clear how the "distributed transfers" are used here —...
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