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  2. Glossary of BitTorrent terms - Wikipedia

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    Pieces 2, 3, 6, 7 have availability 2. Pieces 4 and 5 have availability 3. The entire torrent has availability 1.6 (1 + 6/10). The integer part is 1 because 1 is the lowest piece availability. The fractional part is 6/10 because more than one peer has pieces 2 to 7 (6 pieces) and there are 10 total pieces. Even though 3 peers have pieces 4 and ...

  3. The Pirate Bay - Wikipedia

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    The Pirate Bay (sometimes abbreviated as TPB) is an online index of digital content of entertainment media and software. [1] Founded in 2003 by Swedish think tank Piratbyrån, The Pirate Bay allows visitors to search, download, and contribute magnet links and torrent files, which facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing among users of the ...

  4. Countries blocking access to The Pirate Bay - Wikipedia

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    On 11 September 2015, Norway's two biggest internet providers Telenor and Altibox blocked their users access to The Pirate Bay. Film producers like Warner Bros., SF Norway and Disney, got favor in court on all counts in a lawsuit against several of the largest Internet providers in Norway.

  5. Comparison of BitTorrent sites - Wikipedia

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    Development and societal aspects. By country or region. Comparisons. v. t. e. This is a comparison of BitTorrent websites that includes most of the most popular sites. These sites typically contain multiple torrent files and an index of those files.

  6. Timeline of file sharing - Wikipedia

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    September 8 – The RIAA begins filing lawsuits against individuals allegedly sharing files on P2P networks such as Kazaa. [62] November – Winny source code is confiscated by the Kyoto Police. November 21 – The Pirate Bay (TPB) bittorrent tracker is founded by Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, and Peter Sunde.

  7. BitTorrent - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, 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 protocol is developed and maintained by Rainberry, Inc., and was first released in 2001.

  8. The Pirate Bay trial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Wikipedia: The Pirate Bay Trial. The Pirate Bay trial is a joint criminal and civil prosecution in Sweden of four individuals charged for promoting the copyright infringement...

  9. The Pirate Bay raid - Wikipedia

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    The Pirate Bay raid took place on 31 May 2006 in Stockholm, when The Pirate Bay, a Swedish website that indexes torrent files, was raided by Swedish police, causing it to go offline for three days. Upon reopening, the site's number of visitors more than doubled, the increased popularity attributed to greater exposure through the media coverage ...