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BitTorrent

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See also: bittorrent

Thumb — In this animation, the coloured bars beneath all of the clients represent individual pieces of the file. After the initial pieces transfer from the seed, the pieces are individually transferred from client to client. The original seeder only needs to send out one copy of the file for all the clients to receive a copy.

Alternative forms

bittorrent

Etymology

From bit +‎ torrent.

Proper noun

BitTorrent

(networking) A peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.

Derived terms

torrent

See also

seed
tracker
leecher

Further reading

BitTorrent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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