Practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information
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File sharing
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123Movies
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PeerTube
Putlocker
YouTube
BitTorrent sites
1337x
Demonoid
ExtraTorrent
EZTV
isoHunt
FitGirl Repacks
KickassTorrents
Nyaa Torrents
RARBG
Rutracker.org
Tamil Rockers
The Pirate Bay
YIFY
YourBittorrent
Academic/scholarly
ICanHazPDF
Internet Archive
Library Genesis
Sci-Hub
File sharing networks
BitTorrent
Direct Connect
eDonkey
Gnutella
Gnutella2
Hyphanet
I2P
Soulseek
P2P clients
BitComet
DC++
eMule
Filetopia
μTorrent
OnionShare
qBittorrent
Shareaza
Transmission
Tribler
Vuze
WinMX
Streaming programs
Butter Project
Kodi
Popcorn Time
Torrents-Time
Anonymous file sharing
Anonymous P2P
Darknet
Friend-to-friend
Private P2P
Proxy server
Seedbox
VPN
Development and societal aspects
Timeline
Legality
BitTorrent issues
By country or region
Canada
Japan
Singapore
UK
USA
Comparisons
Comparison of BitTorrent clients
Comparison of BitTorrent sites
Comparison of eDonkey software
Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients
Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
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File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include removable media, centralized servers on computer networks, Internet-based hyperlinked documents, and the use of distributed peer-to-peer networking.
File sharing technologies, such as BitTorrent, are integral to modern media piracy, as well as the sharing of scientific data and other free content.
peer-to-peer networking. Filesharing technologies, such as BitTorrent, are integral to modern media piracy, as well as the sharing of scientific data and...
ShareFile is a secure content collaboration, filesharing and sync software that supports all the document-centric tasks and workflow needs of small and...
This is a timeline of events in the history of networked filesharing. 1976 – Xmodem a point-to-point binary transfer protocol by Ward Christensen. February...
Filesharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audios, photos and/or videos)...
Filesharing in Japan is notable for both its size and sophistication. The Recording Industry Association of Japan has used a 2010 study to suggest that...
Filesharing in Singapore relates to the distribution of digital media in that country. In January 2019, there were about 12,971,500 households connected...
distribution models are common methods of filesharing incorporate manual sharing using removable media, centralized computer file server installations on computer...
printers. E.g. sharedfile access (also known as disk sharing and folder sharing), shared printer access, shared scanner access, etc. The shared resource is...
This is a glossary of jargon related to peer-to-peer filesharing via the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent at Wikipedia's sister projects Definitions from...
Filesharing in Canada relates to the distribution of digital media in that country. Canada had the greatest number of filesharers by percentage of population...
download, and contribute magnet links and torrent files, which facilitate peer-to-peer filesharing among users of the BitTorrent protocol. The Pirate...
In Mac OS X 10.4, users can share the contents of their Public folders by checking Personal FileSharing in the Sharing section of System Preferences...
file sharing Disk sharing Distributed data store Distributed file system for cloud Global file system Gopher (protocol) List of distributed file systems...
Free software portal OnionShare is an open source filesharing application using tor network to sharefiles, available on most major platforms. It also...
Remote FileSharing (RFS) is a Unix operating system component for sharing resources, such as files, devices, and file system directories, across a network...
Filesharing in the United Kingdom relates to the distribution of digital media in that country. In 2010, there were over 18.3 million households connected...
Peer-to-peer filesharing (P2P) systems like Gnutella, KaZaA, and eDonkey/eMule, have become extremely popular in recent years, with the estimated user...
giFT Internet File Transfer (giFT) is a computer software daemon that allows several filesharing protocols to be used with a simple client having a graphical...
prevent copyright infringement through filesharing. The organizations particularly target the distribution of files via the Internet using peer-to-peer...
Directive Filesharing in the United Kingdom Internet censorship in the United Kingdom Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia Legal aspects of filesharing Web...
a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing protocol like BitTorrent, the term filesharing is more often used in this case. Moving files within a computer system...
synchronization of an individual's personal documents, as well as public/private filesharing of those documents. This is typically combined with other Microsoft Office...
centralized computer system. Decentralized systems still enable filesharing and all computers can share peripherals such as printers and scanners as well as modems...