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This is just a technique, not a program. They made some software to test the theory, but from what they wrote it's not a standalone app that could replace current bittorrent clients. It's not supposed to either; they'd rather prove that the theory works and then incorporate it into existing clients. Think of it as a nice add on to existing protocols.

It's only a matter of time before the big clients integrate the code and theory into their protocols. This will make transfers faster (to some degree), but aside from that users probably wont notice.

"Wow, so you mean that now I will be able to download faster than actually possible! Will my ISP allow that..."
Can't tell if this is serious, but this software does not enable "downloads faster than actually possible". Basically think of it this way; say your internet connection can download at 600kb/s, but when you're downloading a specific file it's only going at 300kb/s because it can't find enough people to download from. If you had SET, you could find some other people sharing similar (but not identical) files and download from them too, so you're now downloading at 600kb/s. You'll never download more than your internet connection though, which is a separate issue from SET.