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Click. This week on Click, we will look at

a great way of downloading data, piece by piece, BitTorrent. But

famous for its association with piracy, we will ask its creator

whether it can prepare `` repair its image. As videogames grow up, we

will visit a festival that celebrates them as art. We will also

have this week's tech news and the best of the Web in Webscape.

Welcome to Click. This is an amazing figure. Of all

the data that flows across the internet every day, nearly a quarter

of it is the same thing. Something called BitTorrent. It is a method of

sharing large files between computer users. Files such as movies,

software and TV programmes. Although it does have legitimate uses, guess

what, nearly all of the files that are swapped RE legal.

Never mind the fact that large organisations such as Facebook,

Twitter and the team before the Large Hadron Collider and the Human

Genome Project user to shift enormous amounts of data, the name

BitTorrent has become synonymous with internet piracy. It is the most

you `` used technology for distributing copyrighted material

online. Want to know how Breaking Bad finished? 3 million people found

out by downloading illegal copies. The most downloaded series of all

time is the widely successful HBO fantasy drama, game of drones.

According to TorrentFreak, they had 5.2 million illegal downloads

between March and June this year. It is something that the entertainment

industry has found difficult to fight, because it does not work in

the same way as traditional services, which store all their

downloadable content in one place. BitTorrent is a really clever way of

moving large files around. Instead of downloading things from a central

server, hundreds or even thousands of individual users each pull

different parts of the final are many others who already have it.

Their reserve central server, which means there is no bottleneck in the

traffic to slow things down, and it also means that if these files

happen to be illegal copies, there is no`one place for the authorities

to go to shut them down. There are targets. Websites which point to the

illegal files. Even though the sites do not store the pirated content

themselves, the entertainment industry has successfully managed to

shut down site such as Pirate Bay, and most recently, ISOHunt. Who is

doing what and where? This is a visual representation of any legal

filesharing that goes around the world, using BitTorrent. Pirates

cinema, an art installation created by a French artist, makes the hidden

activity and geography filesharing visible. It shows a sample of

illegal videos being shared in real`time user BitTorrent. We found

that the amount of content being transferred over BitTorrent has

increased dramatically. In January 2013, we saw 7 billion petabyte is

being transferred over BitTorrent, all of that infringing material.

There is no sign whatsoever that the number of people using BitTorrent

and the amount of data being transferred over BitTorrent has any

sign of slowing. This amount was illegal sharing does anger a lot of

content producers. Not everyone involved has such a simpleminded

opinion. I see that there are two sides. If I am being honest. I see

that the illegal downloading went to a lot of people watching the

series, becoming aware of the series, who otherwise would not have

been. So I see in some ways the illegal downloading has helped us.

Certainly in terms of brand awareness. It is the most pyrite did

show in the world? You are obviously happy. `` pirated. There is a part

of you where you go, yes, we are the most pirated. People who do

subscribe to it through illegitimate channels, they feel part of a team

effort because of it. My money has gone towards making the ground that

he has caught on. It feels like an inclusive thing. It is the rise of

these legitimate, easy to use channels, that is thought to have

led to a decline. In North America, the amount of peaktime internet

traffic generated by BitTorrent has dropped by two thirds in the last

five years. From 31% in 2008, to only 9% today. We are seeing a

decline in BitTorrent traffic and America as a precaution, because of

the rise of some very successful legitimate alternatives, and the

main driver of that is Netflix. It takes up 30% of all downstream

big`time North America traffic, which is a huge amount, and on top

of that, legitimate services such as Hulu and Amazon Instant, which are

also taking up the bandwidth. The sharers of BitTorrent traffic is

actually declining. But printing does remain popular in other parts

of the world. As ISOHunt and the Pirate Bay are taking down, they are

replaced by others. Still, BitTorrent is trying to repair its

reputation. To this end, the company ran a billboard campaign in your ``

in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The creator of BitTorrent,

Bram Cohen, sat down with us to talk about his attempt to distance itself

from piracy, and where he understands the pirates prefer

torrents to Netflix. Using BitTorrent it is possible to

give customers a much better experience, with much less cost. It

is not being utilised properly and it is unfortunate. It is not

necessarily about a better experience, but it provides a lot of

anonymity for users to be able to share copyrighted material. I

disagree. Occasionally I watch things Netflix. I do watch things

Netflix. I find it very frustrating because the video quality is really

terrible. I really go out of my way not to give the slightest hint of

pirating anything ever, but if I was a nobody who did not know about

copyright, my guess is that I would probably Pirate some of the stuff

that I can watch Netflix, that I have repaid to be able to watch,

because I want to watch it in high resolution. BitTorrent is making a

concerted effort to make sure that artists are rewarded. The idea

behind BitTorrent bumbles, creators really share some content, but

include other content which fans can only unlock by actively engaging, by

entering an email address, which can be used for marketing. Some people

would say if you had done this a long time ago, you would not have

gained a reputation for being the site or the technology that

facilitates piracy. Could you have coded something like this into the

technology many years ago? We have tried a number of different ways

with working with people, Hollywood deals. I guess you have a brand

problem with Hollywood. Yes. We are treated as hostile actors,

frequently, when we are trying to work with people. Although we have

never been sued, so that is good. Why is that? Because we are a

technology vendor. You are just the plumbing. A sickly. `` basically.

When I created BitTorrent, I was literally a guy sitting in his

living room in his underwear. One of the biggest problem is that he is

trying to solve today concerns proceed `` privacy. With America's

and is a reeling after the will revelations, he has his sights on an

NSA`proof missions in service to keep out conversations away from

prising eyes. People issue when they communicate with others that what

they are doing is private. There has been a lot of implicit trust in

third parties. Which we now know has been violated. That is the issue.

There is the fabulous technology that makes possible, to make it

impossible for someone else to snoop on what you are doing. Is this a

libertarian philosophy? It gets to be a complicated issue in personal

communications. Sometimes law enforcement needs to do things. They

need to come in and spy on people. So it is suitable for regulation?

For law enforcement. Those infringement of copyright for into

that category? Copyright infringement is not a crime in the

way that beating someone up is a crime, or stealing something is a

crime. Stealing a physical thing from a stall. It is something else.

Finally, what would you like your legacy to be? Do you want to go down

as a guy who created a hugely disruptive world changing

technology? I would like to do something in a space that fills more

important than entertainment. I would like to do something such as

power generation or industry, manufacturing. I am interested in

3`D printing and things like that. I do not think my work is done.

This is always a hot topic. We would love to get your thoughts on it.

Next up, a look at this week's tech news. Apple has revealed how many

times governments around the world have requested information about its

users. Topping the list was the US government, which requested

information up to 3000 Apple account in the six months to June. The

company released data in response. In up to 1000 of the cases, the

government restricts it from disclosing more information. India

has successfully launched its first unmanned mission to Mars. There were

cheers as a rocket blasted off from a launch facility in the Bay of

Bengal, carrying a scientific probe. If all goes to plan, it will reach

its destination in September of next year, and will orbit the red planet

looking for signs that it can support life. You have heard of

outsourcing, crowd funding, and crowd working, and that is just the

tip of the iceberg. Researchers studying the effects of climate

change are using people to watch the Web cams around the clock. They

hoping the increased eyeball count will hope `` will flag interesting

events. The entertainment industry loves its festivals. Film fans flock

to Cannes in the south of France and Sunday at in the United States.

Music and art fans have thousands of festivals to choose from, and now

the videogame industry has a festival of its own. It celebrates

games as more than just an adolescent diversion. It also... It

is home in Nottingham. A fireworks display with a

difference. These fireworks are entirely digital and controlled by

their audience. They can trigger a motion sensor, which launches

different pyrotechnics, culminating in a giant game of space invaders

and the launch of the eight annual GameCity. The GameCity festival in

Nottingham is unusual for a video games event, most of which look and

sound like this. This festival, on the other hand, is

far more concerned with the cultural impacts and potential of video games

beyond commercial concerns. Evidence by this game behind me, which

involves people shouting as loudly as they can. This game, where

players make as much racket as possible at key moments to defeat

their opponent, is typical of the innovative approach that developers

have `` used, approaching games as more than artform than a commodity.

The festival itself is organised with the help of Trent University.

Games are made by people. It's the biggest cultural industry in the

world and one of the fastest`growing media industries. But unlike other

creative industries, the videogames make it great that you know the fee

he `` humans who made them. The key thing is about exposing the fact

that games are made by people. Or the duration of the festival,

developers and design students rub shoulders with industry legends and

discuss and play games in interactive experiences which

challenge the videogames. When somebody says to me, old maps,

exciting interactive experience isn't the first thing that pops into

my mind. But that's exactly the gauntlet that's been laid down by

the British library to several different groups of young

developers, as they engage in the off the map competition. The British

library provided the maps from its archive of four million and games

developer Crytek provided students with the tools to create virtual

worlds by its software. Students combined the cartography and the

game engine to bring the sometimes ancient maps to light. Games are

virtual worlds and virtual worlds are maps in their own right. Have

many maps in the British library. What we are interested to see is how

this gaming engine transformed a 2`dimensional flat piece of paper,

with an image on it, into a 3D world. Six teams competed against

one another, with the winning entry courtesy of the Montford University

in Leicester. They allow the player to explore and early version of

putting lane. The story is rich with history and different elements and

dynamics. Actual size of it, of course, was a real challenge. At

that also getting across all of that history and characters and the

streets. This story that London has to tell. We wanted to get that

across visually. Other stories are being told at GameCity which aren't

so visual. There is a way back for you to the world of the living. As

well as up and coming students, established developers take part in

the festival, often presenting unusual games and very unusual or

unexpected environments. I am underneath Nottingham in the

dungeons and Galleries of Justice. Not because I have been naughty but

caused cost I am here to play a new smartphone game. It's a game that

forces the player not to rely on their eyes but to rely on the years.

That's because it's a title driven entirely by sound. What was that?

The game makes use of actor Sean Bean's vocal talents to spin a yarn

that sees the play a journey through window in an attempt to return to

the land of the living. Brace yourself... It is spooky and

atmospheric. The graphics exist purely for rudimentary navigation

and movement. Everything else unfolds entirely through the

narration of the actor. Not if you can hear me. `` nod. Your mind has

the best graphics and what you don't have allows you to fill in the gaps

and, particularly it works well with horror and adventure. Above ground,

an entirely different take on the shooting genre, courtesy of one of

the minds behind Golden eye. The way it works is to cameras moved over

the Market Square. Each controlled by one player. Each player is

supposed to choose somebody in the Market Square to make a couple or a

friendship to bring to people together who were formerly strangers

and create any relationship. Then those selected people come back,

play the game, control the cameras. It is my impression that there's

enough military shooters or manned shooters, a big burly guy with a

vast array of military equipment, and a series of interaction is to go

up to people and killed them repeatedly, I appreciate there are a

wide range of people who enjoy that. I am creatively inspired to make new

attractions and new kinds of entertainment.

Whether it's using games technology in education or for entertainment,

this festival is an excellent example of the growing maturity of

the games industry. Games as art. A refreshing take on

an industry which is often discussed in terms of its negative social

impacts, with claims that games desensitise us to violence and

promote criminal activity. In fact, Kate Russell has another

take on the power of gaming for good next in Web Scape.

The debate about green issues rages on but one thing is for sure, if the

world does run out of natural resources, it's going to change

everything and not in a good way. That's the message behind a Facebook

game, Recharge, set in the not too distant future and aims to teach

players about the of sustainable energy. `` the importance of. The

driving creative force behind the gain is Linkin Park. They have been

involved in the clean energy movement since 2005, when they

sounded music for relief, a charity which helps those affected by

natural disasters and promotes the use of clean energy. A top`down

partner and shooter, Recharge is fun, whatever your view on

sustainable energy. Combining the view `` appeal of gaming with Linkin

Park's fan base, it's an initiative that seems bound to capture the

imagination of younger generation. And if today's rising energy prices

give you sleepless nights, how about trying a slick tracking app `` sleep

tracking app? Sleep Time is free on iOS and Android and will monitor

your movements you can build up a picture of how well are sleeping.

There is a soothing soundscape to help his `` drift off and plenty of

tips about how to get a better night's rest.

You need to sleep with your phone resting on your bed, so the app can

pick up any movement, that's how it knows when you are in deep and light

sleep cycles. But the alarm will lead to a gently when you are not in

deep sleep, rather than just ripping you out of your dreams at a set

time. Another interesting that is sleep, free on android. It does all

the slick tracking and smart alum stuff but will also kick into audio

record mode if you get restless, it could reveal if you are snoring or

talking in your sleep. `` SleepBot. Photography fans will love this next

site. Fotor has a huge range of filters and other editing tools for

you to snap up your snaps. Using the browser or download the apps for

iOS, android or Windows phones are also the Windows desktop and Mac.

You can get creative editing your snaps and creating the `` beautiful

collages to share with your friends. One of the features I love is the

ability to create HDR images, or high dynamic range. It's a striking

visual effect that photographers, like Trey Ratcliff, has perfect.

It's where they take several different shots of the same frame at

different exposures for combining them to get the maximum detail out

of all of `` then light and shaded parts of the shots. You need a

camera that can take the range of shots. Then just load them up into

the site and it will process them automatically.

The tilt shift filter is another great look if you want to make a

striking image. Google's new marketplace for experts

launched this week and connects users through video chat with

experts in the subjects, ranging from yoga to guitar.

Tutors are all battered and they get to set their own fees, with Google

taking a 20% cut. The service is available online through Google

hangout and on and android app, with an IOS version in the pipeline.

That was Web Scape. If you missed those links, they are all at our

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