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12 unusual facts about bittorrent


AMP v Persons Unknown

On 2 November 2008, the images were uploaded to a Swedish website hosting BitTorrent files.

The decision in the case was published on 10 January 2012, and involved a woman who had experienced blackmail and harassment after sexually explicit pictures of her taken on a mobile phone camera were uploaded to BitTorrent file-sharing websites.

Art for Freedom's secretprojectrevolution

Madonna, VICE, Steven Klein and BitTorrent have launched Art for Freedom and announced secretprojectrevolution, its first release.

Elephants Dream

The film was released for download directly and via BitTorrent on the Official Orange Project website on May 18, 2006, along with all production files.

For Dummies

In October 2011, John Wiley and Sons sued 27 BitTorrent users in New York for pirating books from the For Dummies series.

Geograph Britain and Ireland

The entire archive of images with RDF metadata is being made available for download via BitTorrent.

Media Access Project

One of the bigger cases that lead to current net neutrality rules was in 2007 when internet service provider Comcast was caught directly manipulating or blocking their subscriber’s access to the popular file sharing service BitTorrent.

Nordkalotten 365

The broadcaster has made high-quality series episodes available for Internet users to download via BitTorrent with no digital restrictions.

Sixteen Military Wives

The video was the first to ever be originally released for online distribution via BitTorrent.

The Questions We Ask at Night

It leaked onto the internet via blogs and BitTorrent in 2006, but there was such minimal online success, the band took no further action.

US Copyright Group

It is engaged in suing people in the U.S. who have allegedly used the P2P file sharing protocol BitTorrent to download certain movies.

VPRO Backlight

The organization released four documentaries in 2009 and 2010 under a Creative Commons license using the content distribution feature of the Mininova BitTorrent tracker.


A5/1

These tables constituted only parts of the 2TB completed table, and had been computed during three months using 40 distributed CUDA nodes, and then published over BitTorrent.

BitTorrent protocol encryption

After negotiations between different BitTorrent developers a new proposal was written and then implemented into the Azureus and µTorrent betas within days.

Boy Who Never Slept

It is a comedy with some elements of romance, and is available for download by many means, (including the web and BitTorrent download).

Christopher Boyd

An article by John C. Dvorak of PC Magazine alleged Boyd was part of some "Grand Microsoft Conspiracy" to bad-mouth BitTorrent to the benefit of their planned P2P tool, Avalanche.

KickassTorrents

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.

Killer NIC

Bigfoot also publishes some of their own applications; these include a firewall, BitTorrent client, FTP application, and Telnet service that allows access to the Killer NIC's OS.

MediaDefender

Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback accused MediaDefender of injecting its decoy files into Revision3's BitTorrent service through a vulnerability, then automatically perpetrating the attack after Revision3 increased security.

Open Media Network

The OMN infrastructure was powered by Kontiki grid network technology, a commercial alternative to BitTorrent.

Operation D-Elite

EliteTorrents was singled out among the large number of Bittorrent sites because EliteTorrents released a Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith workprint approximately six hours prior to the movie's theatrical release.

Oswaldo Romano Junior

Segurar.com has now Jose Augusto Correa (Crival/FGV) and Rodrigo Veloso (onedrinks.com) as co-founders, and Aber Whitcomb (MySpace), Ashwin Navin (BitTorrent,Flingo), Paul Bragiel (I/O Ventures), Tommy Mottola (Sony Music), Michael Farello and Scott Dahnke (Catterton Partners) on the advisory board.

Shawn Hogan

Accused of downloading the motion picture, Meet the Fockers, via the BitTorrent network, he received a call in November 2005 from an MPAA lawyer explaining that he was being sued, and that the MPAA would settle for $2,500.

Stanislav Shalunov

It is now used by companies including Apple and BitTorrent and accounts for between 13% and 20% of all Internet traffic.

The Yes Men Fix the World

Due to the movie being sued by United States Chamber of Commerce, a special edition of the movie is distributed through bittorrent through VODO and other prominent torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and EZTV.

Torrent file

In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms.

Torrentproject

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.

Wirehog

OneSwarm - private friend-to-friend and BitTorrent software