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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.
libtorrent is an open-source implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. It is written in and has its main library interface in C++. Its most notable features are support for Mainline DHT, IPv6, HTTP seeds and μTorrent 's peer exchange. libtorrent uses Boost, specifically Boost.Asio to gain its platform independence.
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 2023. [2]
YourBittorrent is a file sharing website founded as myBittorrent in 2003, the new site yourBittorrent is the result of a split in ownership in 2009. The site is a torrent tracking website for the P2P BitTorrent network. As such it does not host files, but hosts information about the location of these files in an indexed torrent file. [2]
OpenBitTorrent's initiative to provide a free, stable service with no ties to indexing sites or even hosting torrent files has been a public success and it has spawned several copies with almost identical services. OpenBitTorrent has been suspected of being a part of, or a side project of, The Pirate Bay, because it was observed early on that ...
BitTorrent (software) BitTorrent is a proprietary adware [5] BitTorrent client developed by Bram Cohen and Rainberry, Inc. used for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent was the first client written for the protocol. It is often nicknamed Mainline by developers denoting its official origins.
A torrent file contains a list of files and integrity metadata about all the pieces, and optionally contains a large list of trackers. A torrent file is a bencoded dictionary with the following keys (the keys in any bencoded dictionary are lexicographically ordered ): announce —the URL of the high tracker. info —this maps to a dictionary ...
BitTorrent tracker. A BitTorrent tracker is a special type of server that assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol . In peer-to-peer file sharing, a software client on an end-user PC requests a file, and portions of the requested file residing on peer machines are sent to the client, and then reassembled into a ...