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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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  • 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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  • Torrent poisoning is intentionally sharing corrupt data or data with misleading file names using the BitTorrent protocol. This practice of uploading fake...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • LokiTorrent was a BitTorrent indexing service operated by Edward Webber ("Lowkee") from 2004 until 2005. The domain name was originally registered on 24...
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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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    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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  • US Copyright Group (category BitTorrent)
    the P2P file sharing protocol BitTorrent to download certain movies. The group uses custom software that monitors bittorrent swarms of selected movies, records...
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    Library Genesis (category Articles with short description)
    library.nu, which was shut down by legal action in 2012. By 2014, its catalog was more than twice the size of library.nu with 1.2 million records. As of 28 July 2019...
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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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    The Pirate Bay raid (category Articles with short description)
    warrants for breach of copyright law or assisting such a breach. The BitTorrent community quickly spread the announcement across online news sites, blogs...
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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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  • Trade group efforts against file sharing (category Articles with multiple maintenance issues)
    Law portal Graduated response Legal issues with BitTorrent Odex's actions against file-sharing Open Music Model Torrent poisoning Virtual private network...
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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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  • 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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  • YouTorrent was a BitTorrent search engine which allowed parallel searches on different torrent search engines. As of April 14, 2008, YouTorrent changed...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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