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    The use of the BitTorrent protocol for the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted content generated a variety of novel legal issues. While the technology...
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  • the biggest BitTorrent trackers, The Pirate Bay tracker. qBittorrent is an open source BitTorrent client with a built-in tracker support. BitTorious is...
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  • is a comparison of BitTorrent websites that includes most of the most popular sites. These sites typically contain multiple torrent files and an index...
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  • The official BitTorrent client, μTorrent, qBittorrent, Transmission, Vuze, and BitComet are some of the most popular clients. Some BitTorrent implementations...
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  • request is made by a legitimate party. myBittorrent (currently known as YourBittorrent) was the first BitTorrent site that has ever been "kidnapped" by...
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  • Torrent poisoning is intentionally sharing corrupt data or data with misleading, deceiving file names using the BitTorrent protocol. This practice of uploading...
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    YIFY (category BitTorrent)
    YIFY Torrents or YTS was a peer-to-peer release group known for distributing large numbers of movies as free downloads through BitTorrent. YIFY releases...
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  • Demonoid is a BitTorrent tracker and website founded in 2003 to facilitate file-sharing–related discussion and provide a searchable index of torrent files. The...
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  • Suprnova.org (category Defunct BitTorrent websites)
    BitTorrent search engine, Suprnova.org closed in late 2004 after legal threats. The site operators supported the development of the eXeem BitTorrent client...
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  • YggTorrent (sometimes abbreviated as Ygg) is a French private torrent directory and BitTorrent tracker created in 2017. According to Alexa Internet, as...
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  • file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. It was founded in 2008 and by November 2014, KAT became the most visited BitTorrent directory in the world...
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    (disambiguation) Shared resource Timeline of file sharing Legal issues with BitTorrent Don't Copy That Floppy Torrent poisoning Countries blocking access to The Pirate...
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    in a BitTorrent client, begin downloading the desired content. Originally, The Pirate Bay allowed users to download BitTorrent files (torrents), small...
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  • TorrentSpy was a popular BitTorrent indexing website. It provided .torrent files, which enabled users to exchange data between one another. It also provided...
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  • Shadow library (category Articles with short description)
    crisis". Some shadow libraries (or their content databases) make use of BitTorrent (mainly for database dumps), dark web, and InterPlanetary File System...
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    LimeWire (category BitTorrent clients for Linux)
    LimeWire also now includes BitTorrent support, but is limited to three torrent uploads and three torrent downloads, which coexist with ordinary downloads. LimeWire...
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  • RARBG (category Defunct BitTorrent websites)
    was a website that provided torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. From 2014 to 2023,...
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    Tribler (category Free BitTorrent clients)
    open source decentralized BitTorrent client which allows anonymous peer-to-peer by default. Tribler is based on the BitTorrent protocol and uses an overlay...
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    Justin Sun (category Articles with short description)
    the owner of Rainberry (formerly Bitorrent Inc.), which developed the BitTorrent protocol and under Sun's leadership developed the BTT cryptocurrency token...
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    Library Genesis (category Articles with short description)
    Articles, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 9 June 2015 Van der Sar, Ernesto (22 June 2015), Libgen Goes Down As Legal Pressure Mounts, TorrentFreak...
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  • Z-Library (category Articles with short description)
    domains (oftentimes by internet providers at the DNS-level in accordance with legal procedures), Z-Library used a homepage that did not contain any infringing...
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  • IsoHunt (category Defunct BitTorrent websites)
    that the MPAA had launched legal proceedings against isoHunt, TorrentBox, TorrentSpy, ed2k-it, and several other BitTorrent indexing or tracker sites,...
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  • Free Download Manager (category BitTorrent clients for Linux)
    BitTorrent client Comparison of file sharing applications Comparison of download managers Comparison of YouTube downloaders Comparison of BitTorrent clients...
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    Popcorn Time (category Free BitTorrent clients)
    Popcorn Time is a multi-platform, free software BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player. The application provides a piracy-based alternative...
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  • invitation-only BitTorrent community, with about 180,000 members. When closed by the authorities, the site had stored about 200,000 torrent files. One of...
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  • T411 (category Defunct BitTorrent websites)
    Swedish police. In 2006 a BitTorrent tracker named QuebecTorrent (in reference to Quebec) was created. In July 2008, QuebecTorrent was shut down by the Canadian...
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    Shareaza (category Free BitTorrent clients)
    Microsoft Windows which supports the Gnutella, Gnutella2 (G2), eDonkey, BitTorrent, FTP, HTTP and HTTPS[citation needed] network protocols and handles magnet...
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    Megaupload legal case and Torrent websites like The Pirate Bay (see The Pirate Bay trial and The Pirate Bay raid). BitTorrent BitTorrent tracker Decentralized...
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  • Mininova (category Defunct BitTorrent websites)
    offering BitTorrent downloads. Mininova was once one of the largest sites offering torrents of copyrighted material, but in November 2009, following legal action...
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    Butter Project (category BitTorrent)
    video-streaming over the BitTorrent protocol. The project was first made public on 23 October 2015. The aim is to create a completely legal base which other applications...
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