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Shareaza is a peer-to-peer file sharing client running under Microsoft Windows which supports the Gnutella, Gnutella2 (G2), eDonkey, BitTorrent, FTP, HTTP and HTTPS [citation needed] network protocols and handles magnet links, [5] ed2k links, and the now deprecated gnutella and Piolet links. [6] It is available in 30 languages.
A small torrent file is created to represent a file or folder to be shared. The torrent file acts as the key to initiating downloading of the actual content. Someone interested in receiving the shared file or folder first obtains the corresponding torrent file, either by directly downloading it or by using a magnet link. The user then opens ...
Opera 12, a web browser, can also transfer files via BitTorrent. In 2013 Thunder Networking Technologies publicly revealed that some of their employees surreptitiously distributed a Trojan horse with certain releases of Xunlei , the company's BitTorrent-ready download manager.
The BitTorrent client enables a user to search for and download torrent files using a built-in search box ("Search for torrents") in the main window, which opens the BitTorrent torrent search engine page with the search results in the user's default web browser. The current client includes a range of features, including multiple parallel downloads.
Peers that provide a complete file are called seeders, and the peer providing the initial copy is called the initial seeder. The exact information contained in the torrent file depends on the version of the BitTorrent protocol. By convention, the name of a torrent file has the suffix .torrent.
Vuze (previously Azureus) is a BitTorrent client used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol.Vuze is written in Java, and uses the Azureus Engine.In addition to downloading data linked to .torrent files, Azureus allows users to view, publish and share original DVD and HD quality video content. [6]
Free Download Manager is a download manager for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Free Download Manager is proprietary software , but was free and open-source software between versions 2.5 [ 6 ] and 3.9.7.
Integrated torrent search engine (simultaneous search in many torrent search sites and category-specific search requests, such as books, music and software) Remote control through a secure web user interface; Sequential downloading (download in order). Enables "streaming" media files; Super-seeding option; Torrent creation tool