Topsite is a term used by the warez scene to refer to underground, highly secretive, high-speed FTP servers used by release groups and couriers for distribution, storage and archiving of warez releases.[1]
Topsites have very high-bandwidth Internet connections, commonly supporting transfer speeds of hundreds to thousands of megabits per second; enough to transfer a full Blu-ray in seconds.[2] Topsites also have very high storage capacity; a total of many terabytes is typical.[3][4][5] Early on these warez sites were mainly distributing software such as games and applications after the release groups removed any protections. Now they are also a source of other copyright protected works such as movies and music. It is strictly prohibited for sites to charge for access to the content, due to decreased security, and sites found doing so are shunned by the topsite community.[6][7]
^Howe, Jeff (January 2005). "The Shadow Internet".
^Bounie, David; Waelbroeck, Patrick; Bourreau, Marc (2006). "Piracy and the Demand for Films: Analysis of Piracy Behavior in French Universities" (PDF). Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues. 3 (2): 15–27. Retrieved 2013-07-28.
^"BREIN Takes 'Loop' Top Site Offline". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2009-12-04. Topsite with 40 terabytes of storage. [1][2]
^Denton, Adam (2011). "Intellectual property rights in today's digital economy" (PDF). ITU. p. 14. Although much of the content is delivered free, it isn't uncommon for Warez sites to charge for some content.
^CLEANTHIS (2010-01-19). "Info.about.KIA.aka.MPD.and.P2L-CLEANTHIS". Scenenotice.org. These paysites are insecure
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