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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.
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]
However this is not always an effective attack because ISPs can check if the source address is correct. Several studies on BitTorrent found files available for download containing malware . In particular, one small sample indicated that 18% of all executable programs available for download contained malware. [ 114 ]
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. [1] [2] The files, which were usually new films, were popular among the file sharing community using peer-to-peer file sharing protocols such as BitTorrent.
BitTorrent sites may operate a BitTorrent tracker and are often referred to as such. Operating a tracker should not be confused with hosting content. A directory allows users to browse the content available on a website based on various categories.
On 11 January 2012, two Dutch Internet service providers (Ziggo and XS4ALL) were ordered by a court in The Hague to disable lookups of The Pirate Bay's domain names and to block access to The Pirate Bay's IP addresses. [80] They started doing so on 31 January 2012. Pending the results of the appeal they needed to comply the court order.
In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file or meta-info file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms. [1]
Some of the features present in qBittorrent include: Bandwidth scheduler; Bind all traffic to a specific interface; Control over torrents, trackers and peers (torrents queueing and prioritizing and torrent content selection and prioritizing)