In September 2008, the Swedish media reported that the public preliminary investigation protocols concerning Schürrer's murder trial had been made available through a torrent on The Pirate Bay, a Swedish website providing magnet links.
KickassTorrents (commonly abbreviated KAT) is a website, founded in 2008, that provides torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol.
Supported by G2 (Gnutella Peanut Butter), such hashes are vulnerable to hash collision attacks.
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Such a link typically identifies a file not by location, but by content—more precisely, by the content's cryptographic hash value.
The site itself does not host the files, but collects and sorts special Magnet links, which contain a hash value to identify files being shared by other Gnutella2 users through clients such as Shareaza.
It indexes only publicly tracked torrents from various sources including the BitTorrent DHT bittorrent network and offers compilations of various trackers per torrent in magnet links that are not necessarily present in the original .torrent file, so that when a tracker is down, other trackers can be used to retrieve peer data.
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Bitzi originated several popular standards in the peer-to-peer file sharing sphere, including the Magnet URI scheme and Tiger tree hashes.