BitTorrent

The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core.

Discover BitTorrent: how it works, legal issues, security, and modern use cases in this detailed, easy-to-read guide.

A self-hosted privacy-preserving BitTorrent peer relay. Crawls DHT and trackers for peers, serves them via a private announce endpoint with geo-sorting, keeping your client IP hidden.

To gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna's Archive and other shadow libraries.

In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

Based on the volume of IP addresses seen in the network, customers of relatively few ISPs dominate BitTorrent's Distributed Hash Table.

Voltage Pictures' ambitious plan to sue alleged BitTorrent pirates through a reverse class action in Canada has been permanently shut down.

A man found guilty of operating a private torrent site has received a five-year prison sentence, a €10,000 fine, plus €1,800 in costs.

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