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Some sites focus on certain content – such as etree that focuses on live concerts – and some have no particular focus, like The Pirate Bay. Some sites specialize as search engines of other BitTorrent sites.
1337x is an online website that provides a directory of torrent files and magnet links used for peer-to-peer file sharing through the BitTorrent protocol. [1] According to the TorrentFreak news blog, 1337x is the second-most popular torrent website as of 2024. [2]
In April 2007, a rumour was confirmed on the Swedish talk show Bert that The Pirate Bay had received financial support from right-wing entrepreneur Carl Lundström. This caused some consternation since Lundström, an heir to the Wasabröd fortune, is known for financing several far-right political parties and movements like Sverigedemokraterna and Bevara Sverige Svenskt (Keep Sweden Swedish).
In February 2008, the Ministry of Information and Culture ordered ISPs to block 20 torrent sites, including The Pirate Bay, with the aim of blocking all torrent sites. ISP United Networks notified "The Ministry of information has today sent us a letter announcing they will be blocking all Torrent sites. This is due to piracy laws of the State ...
The 2022 NFL draft was the 87th edition of the National Football League's annual draft and was held from April 28–30, 2022, at the Caesars Forum on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise next to Las Vegas. The first round was held on Thursday, April 28, and was followed by the second and third rounds on Friday, April 29.
Torrent poisoning is intentionally sharing corrupt data or data with misleading, deceiving file names using the BitTorrent protocol.This practice of uploading fake torrents is sometimes carried out by anti-infringement organisations as an attempt to prevent the peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing of copyrighted content, and to gather the IP addresses of downloaders.
TorrentFreak's text is free content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial version 3.0 license. [2] Their lead researcher and community manager was the Pirate Party activist Andrew Norton, from 2007 until 2022.
The torrent system has been created to ease the load on central servers, as instead of having individual clients fetch files from the server, torrent can crowd-source the bandwidth needed for the file transfer and reduce the time needed to download large files. Many free/freeware programs and operating systems, such as the various Linux ...