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Oink's Pink Palace (frequently stylized as OiNK) was a prominent BitTorrent tracker which operated from 2004 to 2007. Following a two-year investigation by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the site was shut down on 23 October 2007, by British and Dutch police agencies.
What.CD was a private, invitation-only music BitTorrent tracker and community launched in 2007. [1] [2] The site was shut down on 17 November 2016, after French authorities seized the site's servers. [3] [4]
A private tracker is a BitTorrent tracker that restricts use by requiring users to register with the site. The method for controlling registration used among many private trackers is an invitation system, in which active and contributing members are given the ability to grant a new user permission to register at the site, or a new user goes through an interview process.
Invidious is a free and open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. [2] [3] It is available as a Docker container, [4] or from the GitHub master branch. [5]It is intended to be used as a lightweight and "privacy-respecting" alternative to the official YouTube website. [2]
Trackers are placed in groups, or tiers, with a tracker randomly chosen from the top tier and tried, moving to the next tier if all the trackers in the top tier fail. Torrents with multiple trackers can decrease the time it takes to download a file, but also have a few consequences:
As of 2008, it is the second-largest public torrent tracker in the world. May – Poisoned is released. It is the first Kazaa client for the Mac OS X platform. [citation needed] May – The iTunes Music Store is launched by Apple, selling music by individual tracks, with digital rights management to prevent file sharing
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Soulseek is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network and application, used mostly to exchange music. The current Soulseek network is the second to have been in operation, the same management runs both. The older network, used up to version 156 of the client, was shut down after significant user inactivity.