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β | {{w|The Pirate Bay}} is a website dedicated to facilitating {{w|BitTorrent}} downloads of popular media. The site's servers were taken down, briefly, and the operators were {{w|the pirate bay trial|taken to court}} in Sweden, back in 2009. | + | {{w|The Pirate Bay}} is a website dedicated to facilitating {{w|BitTorrent|BitTorrent}} downloads of popular media. The site's servers were taken down, briefly, and the operators were {{w|the pirate bay trial|taken to court}} in Sweden, back in 2009. |
Unlike normal downloads, files downloaded via BitTorrent are not stored on any web server, but instead transferred in small pieces by other people torrenting the same file; these other people are called "peers." BitTorrent allows websites to provide downloads without using up disk space or bandwidth serving up the entire file; instead, they can host smaller torrent files, which simply describe what the finished file should look like and a few "tracker" servers where lists of other peers can be found, and the peers themselves handle all of the bandwidth issues. This approach is used by a number of websites for completely legal downloads (it's popular among smaller game companies providing digital downloads, for instance), but it's mainly associated with piracy. | Unlike normal downloads, files downloaded via BitTorrent are not stored on any web server, but instead transferred in small pieces by other people torrenting the same file; these other people are called "peers." BitTorrent allows websites to provide downloads without using up disk space or bandwidth serving up the entire file; instead, they can host smaller torrent files, which simply describe what the finished file should look like and a few "tracker" servers where lists of other peers can be found, and the peers themselves handle all of the bandwidth issues. This approach is used by a number of websites for completely legal downloads (it's popular among smaller game companies providing digital downloads, for instance), but it's mainly associated with piracy. |