From the other thread: The core principle is similar. DC has centralized hubs which handle searches and upload files directly to users. Tribler has a distribut

From the other thread: The core principle is similar. DC has centralized hubs which handle searches and upload files directly to users. Tribler has a distributed search engine which runs on every peer and uses bittorrent to share files. Effectively every single Tribler node behaves like a DC hub. As a result it is much harder to take down.