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2. Torrent poisoning - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Data recovery - Wikipedia

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   Data damage can be caused when, for example, a file is written to a sector on the drive that has been damaged. This is the most common cause in a failing drive, meaning that data needs to be reconstructed to become readable. Corrupted documents can be recovered by several software methods or by manually reconstructing the document using a hex ...

4. Bad sector - Wikipedia

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   Hard disk reader. A bad sector in computing is a disk sector on a disk storage unit that is unreadable. Upon taking damage, all information stored on that sector is lost. When a bad sector is found and marked, the operating system like Windows or Linux will skip it in the future.

5. Data corruption - Wikipedia

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   The adjacent image is a corrupted image file in which most of the information has been lost. Some types of malware may intentionally corrupt files as part of their payloads , usually by overwriting them with inoperative or garbage code, while a non-malicious virus may also unintentionally corrupt files when it accesses them.

6. Data degradation - Wikipedia

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   Data degradation is the gradual corruption of computer data due to an accumulation of non-critical failures in a data storage device.It is also referred to as data decay, data rot or bit rot. [1]

7. Torrent file - Wikipedia

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   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 ...