BitTorrent - Legal issues - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Bittorrent: Encyclopedia - Bittorrent
BitTorrent is the name of a client application for the torrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol. created by programmer Bram ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bittorrent: Encyclopedia Ii - Bittorrent - Legal Issues
BitTorrent, like any other file transfer protocol, can be used to distribute files without the permission of the copyright holder. BitTor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bittorrent: Encyclopedia Ii - Bittorrent - Bittorrent-related Applications
Because of the open nature of the protocol, many clients have been developed that support numerous platforms and written using various pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bittorrent: Encyclopedia Ii - Bittorrent - New Developments
The BitTorrent protocol is still under development and therefore may still acquire new features and other enhancements such as improved e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bittorrent: Encyclopedia Ii - Bittorrent - Etiquette
Because BitTorrent relies on the upstream bandwidth of its users — and the more users, the more aggregate bandwidth is available for sh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bittorrent: Encyclopedia Ii - Bittorrent - Comparison To Other File Sharing Systems
The method used by BitTorrent to distribute files parallels to a large extent the one used by the eDonkey2000 network, but nodes in eDonk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bittorrent: Encyclopedia Ii - Bittorrent - Sharing Files
To share a file using BitTorrent, a user creates a .torrent file, a small "pointer" file that contains: the filename, size, and the hash...   » Read the article