BitTorrent Sync

All the bad things that you may have heard about torrents were primarily caused by private companies who were deliberately placing infected files to try and track users sharing copyrighted material or malicious users who were after your personal details.

Sync is not a public network; it only uses the revolutionary peer-to-peer technology from conventional torrents, which allows you to share an unlimited amount of data with an unlimited number of computers. Files are not stored on the cloud. They are stored on all the computers that have BTSync installed on them, and you can control who has access and where these files will be stored. BTSync includes file versioning, sharing with mobile phones, LAN synchronizing, and delta updates. It also allows massive file transfers of gigabytes without any problem as long as your file system can support such large files.

Installing BTSync 2

At the time of writing this book, there were a few repositories that kept this package with startup...