Verizon has come out with the announcement that it is to launch P4P, an advanced filesharing network that serves as a BitTorrent client. Verizon also said it wants to speed up filesharing.

This seems like the exact opposite of what Comcast has done in the past by slowing down its users’ access to filesharing services and BitTorrent clients. Verizon is proposing ways to increase speeds of up to 60%.

P4P is optimized so that users don’t just randomly network with people all around the world. The efficiency of the service therefore increases and speeds can be almost doubled.

However, don’t go getting any bright ideas about getting free music downloads in the same way as you might with Limewire, because P4P will be geared towards legal downloads, including NBC TV shows apparently.

The new protocol could be available as soon as next month, so this is an interesting time for fans of BitTorrent.

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