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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] The U.S. Trade Representative flagged it as one of the most notorious pirate ...
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.
BitTorrent, also referred to simply as 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. [2]
RuTracker.org (also stylized as rutracker★org; known as torrents.ru until 2010) is the biggest Russian BitTorrent tracker. [1] As of August 2024, it has 14.7 million registered active users, 2.450 million torrents (2.443 million of them being active), and the total volume of all torrents is 5.6 petabytes.
Amazon was the first of the initially-significant players to launch their cloud music locker service, in late March 2011, and the first to discontinue it, on 30 April 2018. [3] Amazon Music launched without obtaining any new music streaming licenses, which upset the major record labels. [4] Amazon eventually negotiated licenses before launching ...
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.
Walmart.com operated an online music store, but discontinued it in 2011. [19] Puretracks operated an online music store, but discontinued it in 2013. [20] Pono Music closed in July 2016. [21] GhostTunes closed on March 3, 2017. [22] Microsoft's Zune Music Marketplace was rebranded as Xbox Music in 2012. [23]
Torrentz was a Finland-based metasearch engine for BitTorrent, run by an individual known as Flippy [2] and founded on 24 July 2003. [3] It indexed torrents from various major torrent websites and offered compilations of various trackers per torrent that were not necessarily present in the default .torrent file, so that when a tracker was down, other trackers could do the work.