File sharing

standard protocol for transferring files over TCP/IP networks

BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner. The act of downloading and uploading data via BitTorrent is also labeled "torrenting". The protocol is developed and maintained by Rainberry, Inc., and was first released in 2001.

daemon and utilities for an anonymizing network

thumb|A peer-to-peer (P2P) network in which interconnected nodes ("peers") share resources amongst each other without the use of a centralized administrative system Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed computing or networking architecture in which participants share part of their own resources, such as processing power, storage, or network capacity. These resources are made directly available to other peers without reliance on intermediary entities, and participants act as both resource providers and resource requesters.

illegal usage of a copyrighted work

practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information

digital transfer of music from the Internet to the user's home computer or mobile telephone

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Swedish political party focused on information sharing

congregation of file sharers

layer in the Internet ecosystem addressing bottlenecks

The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an anonymous network layer (implemented as a mix network) that allows for censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer communication. Anonymous connections are achieved by encrypting the user's traffic (by using end-to-end encryption), and sending it through a volunteer-run network of roughly 55,000 computers distributed around the world. Given the high number of possible paths the traffic can transit, a third party watching a full connection is unlikely. The software that implements this layer is called an "I2P router", and a computer running I2P is called an "I2

thumb|Demonstration in support of "fildelning" (file sharing, including of warez), in [[Sweden in 2006.]]

Hyphanet (until mid-2023: Freenet) is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant, anonymous communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web without fear of censorship. Both Freenet and some of its associated tools were originally designed by Ian Clarke, who defined Freenet's goal as providing freedom of speech on the Internet with strong anonymity protection.

American businessman

MediaFire is a file hosting, file synchronization, and cloud storage service based in Shenandoah, Texas, United States. Founded in June 2006 by Derek Labian and Tom Langridge, the company provides client software for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10, and web browsers.

decentralized distributed system that provides a lookup service similar to a hash table

2013 film by Simon Klose

A pastebin or text storage site is a type of online content-hosting service where users can store plain text (e.g. source code snippets or error logs). The most well-known pastebin is the eponymous pastebin.com, created in 2002. Many sites with similar functionality now exist, and several open source pastebin applications are available for self-hosting.

Issuu, Inc. (pronounced "issue") is an electronic publishing platform based in Palo Alto, California, United States. The company's software converts PDFs into customizable digital publications that can be shared via links or embedded into websites.

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EncroChat was a Europe-based communications network and service provider that offered modified smartphones allowing encrypted communication among subscribers. It was used primarily by organised crime members to plan criminal activities.

illegal reproduction and sharing of information on the Internet

use of a linked object on one site by a web page belonging to a second site

a number that represents information which is illegal in some legal jurisdiction

scheme that defines the format of magnet links

French national law concerning intellectual property and Internet privacy

2006 short film

thumb|A list of packs available from an XDCC bot

aXXo is the Internet alias of an individual who released and standardized commercial film DVDs as free downloads on the Internet between 2005 and 2009. The files, which were usually new films, were popular among the file sharing community using peer-to-peer file sharing protocols such as BitTorrent. A download-tracking firm BigChampagne found — in a sampling period in late 2008 — that almost 33.5% of all movie downloads were aXXo torrents. aXXo encoded files to approximately 700 MB – the same size for a compact disc. Due to the re-encoded quality of an aXXo file, the suffix "aXXo" was often us

Decentralized website hosting using peer networks

Stage6 was a video sharing website owned and operated by DivX, Inc., where users could upload, share, and view video clips. Stage6 was different from other video services in that it streamed high quality video clips that were user-encoded with DivX and Xvid video codecs.

Underground content market

virtual private network

A PirateBox is a portable electronic device, often consisting of a Wi-Fi router and a device for storing information, creating a wireless network that allows users who are connected to share files anonymously and locally. By design, this device is disconnected from the Internet.

file sharing URL

USB device installed in a public space

economic and technological framework which foresees the playback of prerecorded music as a service

Broadcatching is the downloading of digital content that has been made available over the Internet using RSS.

Computer network that restrics participation to trusted peers

PDTV is an abbreviation short for Pure Digital Television. Often seen as part of the filename of TV shows shared through P2P, The Scene, and FTP servers on the Internet. In this case, PDTV refers not to container, bitrate or dimensions of the video, but the digital nature of the capture source. Non Scene European rippers often use the label DVBRip or DVB-rip to specify a purely digital rip of a Digital Video Broadcast (DVB), however all Scene groups use standardized labeling.

FilesTube was a metasearch engine established in 2007, which specialized in searching files in various file sharing and uploading services, such as Mega. It also included sections for videos, games, lyrics and software.

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