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  2. Perpendicular recording - Wikipedia

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    Perpendicular recording (or perpendicular magnetic recording, PMR), also known as conventional magnetic recording (CMR), is a technology for data recording on magnetic media, particularly hard disks. It was first proven advantageous in 1976 by Shun-ichi Iwasaki , then professor of the Tohoku University in Japan, and first commercially ...

  3. Torrent file - Wikipedia

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    In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file or meta-info file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms. [1]

  4. Transmission (BitTorrent client) - Wikipedia

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    Transmission allows the assigning of priorities to torrents and to files within torrents, thus potentially influencing which files download first. It supports the Magnet URI scheme [9] and encrypted connections. It allows torrent-file creation and peer exchange compatible with Vuze and μTorrent. It includes a built-in web server so that users ...

  5. BitTorrent (software) - Wikipedia

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    The BitTorrent client enables a user to search for and download torrent files using a built-in search box ("Search for torrents") in the main window, which opens the BitTorrent torrent search engine page with the search results in the user's default web browser. The current client includes a range of features, including multiple parallel downloads.

  6. Magnetic storage - Wikipedia

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    The programmable calculators of the HP-41-series (from 1979) could store data via an external magnetic tape storage device on microcassettes.. Magnetic storage in the form of wire recording—audio recording on a wire—was publicized by Oberlin Smith in the Sept 8, 1888 issue of Electrical World. [1]

  7. Comparison of BitTorrent clients - Wikipedia

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    Some download managers, such as FlashGet and GetRight, are BitTorrent-ready. Opera 12, a web browser, can also transfer files via BitTorrent. In 2013 Thunder Networking Technologies publicly revealed that some of their employees surreptitiously distributed a Trojan horse with certain releases of Xunlei, the company's BitTorrent-ready download ...

  8. Comparison of BitTorrent sites - Wikipedia

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    One-click download Sortable Comments Multi-tracker index Ignores DMCA Tor-friendly Registration 1337x [2] None No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No [3] No Yes BTDigg: None No Yes Yes No No Yes No ? ? Yes No Demonoid: None Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? etree: Live concerts: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No ? ? ? MVGroup: Documentary films and ...

  9. Torrent poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Torrent poisoning is intentionally sharing corrupt data or data with misleading, deceiving file names using the BitTorrent protocol.This practice of uploading fake torrents is sometimes carried out by anti-infringement organisations as an attempt to prevent the peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing of copyrighted content, and to gather the IP addresses of downloaders.