Bittorrent
noun
trademark a file transfer protocol which enables users to upload and download large files on the internet in the form of software, games, film, video, music, etc, from other users rather than from a central server
Contemporary Examples
15 Years After Napster: How the Music Service Changed the Industry Alex Suskind June 5, 2014
networking
A popular, distributed form of peer-to-peer file sharing that enables a client program to fetch different parts of a file (a “torrent”) from different sources in parallel. The system is designed to encourage users to make downloaded data available for others to upload. This is aided by a scheme for exchanging unique identifiers, commonly stored in “.torrent” files. A downloader who does not serve data to others is called a “leech”. A “seed” is a computer that has a complete copy of a file, possibly the original.
The bittorrent.com site claims there are over 100 million users as of 2007-03-24.
Most of the data is copyright material like films or commercial software.
(http://www.bittorrent.com/what-is-bittorrent).
(2007-03-27)
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