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Magnet is a URI scheme that defines the format of magnet links, a de facto standard for identifying files (URN) by their content, via cryptographic hash value rather than by their location.
Although magnet links can be used in a number of contexts, they are particularly useful in peer-to-peer file sharing networks because they allow resources to be referred to without the need for a continuously available host, and can be generated by anyone who already has the file, without the need for a central authority to issue them. This makes them popular for use as "guaranteed" search terms within the file sharing community where anyone can distribute a magnet link to ensure that the resource retrieved by that link is the one intended, regardless of how it is retrieved.
Magnet is a URIscheme that defines the format of magnet links, a de facto standard for identifying files (URN) by their content, via cryptographic hash...
Uniform Resource Name (URN) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that uses the urn scheme. URNs are globally unique persistent identifiers assigned within...
particular tracker. The method is not limited to BitTorrent data. See MagnetURIscheme. In private trackers using ratio credit, a torrent is overseeded when...
downloads simultaneously BitTorrent support (based on Libtorrent), MagnetURIscheme support Flash video download from sites like Google Video (exclude...
standards in the peer-to-peer file sharing sphere, including the MagnetURIscheme and Tiger tree hashes. Many peer-to-peer file sharing programs, including...
also supports listing the P2P methods BitTorrent, ed2k, magnet link or any other that uses a URI. Metalink 3.0 was publicly released in 2005. It was designed...
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Ian McDougall at a magnet technology company, who designed the first magnet, cooled with liquid helium in 1979; X-ray scans...
mishandling of radioactive reactor components. A magnet quench is an abnormal termination of magnet operation that occurs when part of the superconducting...
documentary television series chronicling the events of the Second World War Uri Geller (Hebrew: אורי גלר; born 20 December 1946 in British Mandate of Palestine...
neighbouring states such as Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and Astana is a magnet for young professionals seeking to build a career. Islam and Christianity...
float and the top of the rod contain magnets. The rod is withdrawn from the bottom of the wing until the magnets stick, the distance it is withdrawn indicating...
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