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Topic: file-sharing

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Thursday, 7/2, 11:12 AM

BitTorrent: the file-sharing technology that reshaped the internet

  • A quarter of a century after a lone programmer released it, BitTorrent remains one of the internet's most consequential — and most contested — technologies: an elegant way to move huge files that powered legitimate software and rampant piracy alike, and that later took an unexpected turn into cryptocurrency.

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