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The BitTorrent protocol constitutes a decentralised file-sharing network.

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Justifications for disallowing torrents as an IT Admin

Many countries, including mine, allow torrent traffic and have no constraints about downloading torrent data and violating copyrights. I know that if I traveled out my country 'to Europe for example' I may get caught because of my cracked softwares…
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Identifying torrented files by reversing info_hash

I've been lead to believe that if you decode the info_hash in a tracker GET request, you are left with the SHA1 hash of the file that is being downloaded. That makes sense to me but I'm not getting results here. Does anybody have any experience…
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Can they tell which individual computer was torrenting on shared internet connection?

I live in a shared house where multiple people use the same wi-fi (actually, there’s two: the normal frequency and 5GHz one). The internet is included in the rent. The other day I received a complaint from the landlord that he received a message…
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Download Torrents on University network without detection

I want to download files using Bit-torrent, but I have heard that they can detect when someone is downloading torrents. How can they detect this? And are there any precautions I can do to prevent their further investigations?
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Is BitTorrent Sync a spyware?

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/development-tools/bittorrent-sync-gaining-major-traction-peer-peer-alternative-dropbox-232144 and the average usage has hit 20GB per person. How can they know that without using some sort of spyware to monitor…
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Is it possible to attack system through torrent usage?

Possible Duplicate: What can do a hacker with ip address? I am using the Torrent for Downloading the Music and other files. I heard that using Torrent can give IPAddress information to the other user. How to prevent from those attacks? Or Is it…
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How safe and practical is torrenting?

From my understanding, torrenting differs from standard downloading because it will get pieces of the file from other torrent clients, making it faster (and decentralized if I'm not wrong). How safe is this? Could a user of a torrent client do…
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Will anyone figure out who I am if I am downloading torrent while logged in facebook in my browser?

I have protonvpn. I am downloading torrents. I don't want anyone to know that I am downloading torrents. I am also logged in to Facebook in my browser. So Facebook knows my VPN IP. And my ISP knows the IP from which I am downloading stuff using…
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Is it possible to spoof the user agent of any application?

I love using .torrent files instead of file hosting sites like Mediafire and google drive because of their lack of support for larger files. However, even with a VPN your User Agent is still available and I have read in many places it is possible to…
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Can non-torrent-supporting browsers run torrent clients like jstorrent.com for Chrome?

I'm participating in a discussion on Quora where I argue that browser security means that JavaScript, ActiveX, and even Java applets, aren't allowed to act as torrent clients, even with the end user's permission. More specifically, I would think…
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What hash version is implemented on ThePirateBay.se? SHA-1 or MDA-5?

I downloaded a File Checksum Utility executable file from Microsoft. This tool is for checking the hash of a file. I'm wondering what is the version of the "Info Hash" section on the torrent site "thepiratebay.se". Is there anyone here knew what is…
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How to block torrent sites?

Recently we've received at least four letters from our ISP that we are violating their terms and service by the downloading or the distribution of illegal software through bittorrent protocol. My son has apparently been using the site to download…
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Why is Kickass Torrents banned in my browser?

I am trying to access Kickass Torrents, but getting warning from the browser like this: Reported Unwanted Software Page! This web page at kat.cr has been reported to contain unwanted software and has been blocked based on your security…
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Are Downloads from file hosting sites are 100% safe from legal issue?

See we can download files from file hosting sites, but there is no warning on it. but this security warnings present on torrent sites but not on file hosting sites, why so? See here this picture i encountered. See Another similar case I found : …
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