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  2. FrostWire - Wikipedia

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    FrostWire is a free and open-source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. It was initially very similar to LimeWire in appearance and functionality, but over time developers added more features, including support for the BitTorrent protocol. In version 5, support for the Gnutella network was dropped entirely ...

  3. μTorrent - Wikipedia

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    μTorrent, or uTorrent (see pronunciation), is a proprietary adware BitTorrent client owned and developed by Rainberry, Inc. [10] The "μ" (Greek letter "mu") in its name comes from the SI prefix "micro-", referring to the program's small memory footprint: the program was designed to use minimal computer resources while offering functionality comparable to larger BitTorrent clients such as ...

  4. LimeWire - Wikipedia

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    LimeWire was a free peer-to-peer file sharing client for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris. [ 1] Created by Mark Gorton [ 2][ 3][ 4] in 2000, it was most prominently a tool used for the download and distribution of pirated materials, particularly pirated music. [ 5] In 2007, LimeWire was estimated to be installed on over one-third of all ...

  5. The Pirate Bay - Wikipedia

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    These are used to reference resources available for download via peer-to-peer networks which, when opened in a BitTorrent client, begin downloading the desired content. Originally, [ 46 ] The Pirate Bay allowed users to download BitTorrent files (torrents) , small files that contain metadata necessary to download the data files from other users.

  6. Microsoft's Windows Store Averaged 1.7M Daily Downloads In ...

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    According to information Microsoft provides to developers, the Windows Store marketplace for applications on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 racked up roughly 1.7 million daily downloads, both free and ...

  7. Glossary of BitTorrent terms - Wikipedia

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    Pieces 0, 1, 8, 9 have availability 1. Pieces 2, 3, 6, 7 have availability 2. Pieces 4 and 5 have availability 3. The entire torrent has availability 1.6 (1 + 6/10). The integer part is 1 because 1 is the lowest piece availability. The fractional part is 6/10 because more than one peer has pieces 2 to 7 (6 pieces) and there are 10 total pieces.

  8. Usage share of BitTorrent clients - Wikipedia

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    Digital Music News collected the data from PC Pitstop, a company that gathers data from computers using their free online virus and malware scanners. The program scans Windows Registry to find which clients have been installed, more than a million Microsoft Windows computers were surveyed.

  9. List of free and open-source software packages - Wikipedia

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    Blender – Computer graphics software featuring modeling, sculpting, texturing, rigging, simulation, rendering, camera tracking, video editing, and compositing. MakeHuman. OpenFX – Modeling and animation software with a variety of built-in post processing effects. Seamless3d – Node-driven 3D modeling software.