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BitTorrent is the name of a client application for the torrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol. created by programmer Bram Cohen. BitTorrent is designed to widely distribute large amounts of data without incurring the corresponding consumption in server and bandwidth resources (and typically, monetary fees attracted as a result of that). The original BitTorrent application is written in Python and its source code has been released under the BitTorrent Open Source License (a modified version of the Jabber Open Sour ... Including:

• BitTorrent - How BitTorrent works
• BitTorrent - Sharing files
• BitTorrent - Terminology
• BitTorrent - Comparison to other file sharing systems
• BitTorrent - Legal issues
• BitTorrent - Copyright enforcement
• BitTorrent - Legal defenses
• BitTorrent - Legal uses for BitTorrent
• BitTorrent - Etiquette
• BitTorrent - New developments
• BitTorrent - Alternative approaches
• BitTorrent - BitTorrent search / Trackerless
• BitTorrent - Web seeding unofficial feature
• BitTorrent - Broadcatching
• BitTorrent - API
• BitTorrent - BitTorrent-related applications
• BitTorrent - Clients
• BitTorrent - Applications

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The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids. As a noun, it refers to the liquid thus ingested. It is often used in a narrower sense to refer to alcoholic beverages (as both a verb and a noun). Drink is also slang for a body of water, such as an ocean or a water hazard on a golf course (e.g. "He hit that one into the drink."). To drink in is also used metaphori ...

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He was born Lesane Parish Crooks in New York City on June 16, 1971 to Afeni Shakur, a member of the Black Panthers. Serving jail-time on bombing charges while pregnant with him, his mother faced a sentence of up to three years in prison. Acting as her own attorney, she won the verdict and was released one month before Tupac was born. Shakur said, "I never knew where my father was or who my father was for sure." His godfather, Geronimo Pratt, was also a high-ranking Panther. His step-father Mutulu was a drug dealer who, according to Shakur, was rarely pr ...

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Sweden's long winters explains the lack of fresh vegetables in many traditional recipes. Plants sustaining winter became the cornerstones: various turnips in older times such as the native rutabaga (a.k.a. "the swede"), gradually supplanted by the potato in the 18th century. A lack of spices made the food rather plain, although a number of local herbs and plants have probably been used since ancient times. In Sweden's most populated areas, which have always been on the east coast around current day Stockholm, and on the west coast, current day Gothenburg, people settled due to ...

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BitTorrent, like any other file transfer protocol, can be used to distribute files without the permission of the copyright holder. BitTorrent has become famous for its ability to also share copyrighted files. BitTorrent - Copyright enforcement. There have been many cases of BitTorrent sites distributing illegal content being shut down by organizations. Some of these shutdowns are performed by industry associations, such as the MPAA, and some are performed by government organizations. In December 2004, the Finnish police raided a major BitTorren ...

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Teas Lemon Tea Caffeine Free Lemon Tea Raspberry Tea Peach Tea Just Plain Unsweetened Very Cherry Lime Green Mint Tea Kiwi Teawi Juice Drinks Fruit Punch Snapple Apple Snapricot Orange Cranberry Raspberry Grapeade Kiwi Strawberry Mango Madness Orangeade Summer Peach Raspberry Peach Go Bananas What-a-Melon Out-red-geo ...

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When animation company Hanna-Barbera licensed the animation rights to the DC Comics characters and adapted the Justice League of America comic book for television, it made several changes in the transition, not the least of which was the change of name to Super Friends. In part, it was feared that the name Justice League of America would have seemed too jingoistic during the post-Vietnam War Era. Nevertheless, team members sometimes referred to themselves as the Justice League on the show. The violence common in superher ...

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The original candidate for DC Comics' first headlining black superhero was a character called the Black Bomber, later described by cartoon and comics historian Don Markstein as "an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all." When the editor who had approved the Black Bomber left the company before the character had seen print, Tony Isabella (whose previous writing experience included Luke Cage, Marvel Comics' first black superhero with his own title) was asked to salvage the character; even with the first-issue deadline l ...

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Unlike most of the Super Friends, Black Vulcan was not a pre-existing DC Comics character. This is particularly notable since DC Comics' roster did include an African American superhero with electricity-based powers, Black Lightning. Black Lightning could not be used in the show, however, due to disputes between DC Comics and Tony Isabella, the creator and owner of the character. Originally introduced as a way to add more a culturally diverse roster to the team in the Challenge of the Super Friends series, Black Vulcan was the ...

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