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'''Online Piracy''' is a web phenomena like no other, and has been so ever since the days of the good ol' floppy disc. The fact is, digital data is designed to be replicated and, despite all the attempts by the music industry, software developers and the film and television industry to prevent piracy, the sad truth is that you just can't keep a good pirate down. You don't even need to be a [[geek]], [[nerd]] or [[basement dweller]] these days to be able to pirate your warez and, in [[fact]], it's highly likely that [[your mom]] is better at piracy than you are. Methods of sharing files on the interwebs vary, but the two most common and popular methods of piracy are arguably '''BitTorrent''' and '''Peer-to-Peer / P2P''' file sharing. __TOC__ =BitTorrent= [[Image:Bt2.jpg|thumb|right|175px|Two seconds after a .gif file is posted in /gif/]] '''BitTorrent''' is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used by internet denziens to download just about everything. It is probably the most common protocol for transferring the insanely large folders of data back and forth over the internet. It is estimated that [[Statistics|over 35%]] of the internet’s traffic is found on the bittorrent protocol. Bittorent is such a good file transfer protocol, you will probably over use it to the point where your connection is bogged out and unuseable. == History == Bittorrent was created in 2001 by programmer [[Bram Cohen]] who kept this [[magic]] under wraps for two months. Finally, after realizing that he would need more people using the protocol so that he could share files faster, he uncorked this genie from it's bottle and the internet has not been the same since. == How Bittorrent Works == The initial owner of a file will make what is called a torrent. He then uses this torrent to [[Seed Plz|seed]] his file to other bittorrent users around the world. Each person who downloads the initial seed also uploads the data at the same time, this leads to a very fast and efficient way to distribute your files to all of your friends. As each downloader completes the initial seed, they also begin seeding the files. This exponentially increases the downloading speed for the rest of the people who are looking for your file. The more seeds there are, the faster the files can be transferred. == Bittorrent Clients == There are [[Over 9000|approximately eleventy-billion]] Bittorrent clients available. Here is a brief list of popular clients: <center> {| | align="center" width="200px" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Client''' | align="center" width="400px" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''What can you get with it?''' | align="center" width="200px" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Is it full of spyware?''' |- | align="left" style="background:#4682B4;"|ABC||align="center" style="background:#FA8072;"|movies, warez,mp3s||align="center" style="background:#66CDAA;"|yes |- | align="left" style="background:#4682B4;"|BitComet||align="center" style="background:#FA8072;"|movies, warez,mp3s||align="center" style="background:#66CDAA;"|yes |- | align="left" style="background:#4682B4;"|BitLord||align="center" style="background:#FA8072;"|movies, warez,mp3s||align="center" style="background:#66CDAA;"|yes |- | align="left" style="background:#4682B4;"|BitTornado||align="center" style="background:#FA8072;"|movies, warez,mp3s||align="center" style="background:#66CDAA;"|yes |- | align="left" style="background:#4682B4;"|Deluge||align="center" style="background:#FA8072;"|movies, warez,mp3s||align="center" style="background:#66CDAA;"|yes |- | align="left" style="background:#4682B4;"|Gnome Bittorrent||align="center" style="background:#FA8072;"|movies, warez,mp3s||align="center" style="background:#66CDAA;"|yes |- | align="left" style="background:#4682B4;"|LimeWire||align="center" style="background:#FA8072;"|movies, warez,mp3s||align="center" style="background:#66CDAA;"|yes |- | align="left" style="background:#4682B4;"|Transmission||align="center" style="background:#FA8072;"|movies, warez,mp3s||align="center" style="background:#66CDAA;"|yes |- | align="left" style="background:#4682B4;"|Vuse||align="center" style="background:#FA8072;"|movies, warez,mp3s||align="center" style="background:#66CDAA;"|yes |- | align="left" style="background:#4682B4;"|µTorrent||align="center" style="background:#FA8072;"|movies, warez,mp3s||align="center" style="background:#66CDAA;"|yes |- | |} </center> ==Opponents of Bittorrent== [[Image:Download a car.jpg|thumb|175px|left|gosh, i might even download a truck - [[Killhamster]]]] Anybody smart enough to get out of the [[HTML|http and ftp]] league will, with any luck, make Bittorrent [[No girls on the internet|his]] preferred way of attaining files. Luckily, it doesn't take much [[brain]], and due to frequent [[copyright]] crackdowns Bittorrent is a [[Drama Llama|drama generator]] like no other. If it gets shut down the world would witness a drama explosion of such [[epic]] magnitude and proportion that Chernobyl would look small in comparison. In most countries, it is highly illegal to distribute copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder. Because of the potential for people to try music albums or watch movies prior to purchasing them, copyright holders hate Bittorrent. Because of Bittorrent, users are now capable of sifting through the 99% legal jargon that copyright holders dish out on the unsuspecting public, and actually enjoy what they watch or listen to. Many opponents of the Bittorrent protocol like to use the argument that "You wouldn't download a car" as an example of why a person should not use a Bittorrent client to download illegal files. This argument is rather silly though, considering the fact that if you actually used the Bittorrent protocol to download a car, you could quite possibly end up dead or severely injured due to an automobile flying out of your router. Aaron... <font color=pink><font size=5>'''YOU ARE A PIRATE!!!'''</font color></font size> <center><youtube>YQkCRYFEuBY</youtube></center> ==Trackers== [[Image:Would you download a car.jpg|thumb|right|300px]] Just what is a torrent tracker? A Bittorrent tracker is a main [[server]] which assists you in downloading all the music, applications, and movies you could ever imagine. A tracker will serve your [[IP]] to random people who want the same kind of files that you do. Be careful, [[Mike Sandy]] can get a hold of your [[IP]]. The owners of such Tracker servers feel it necessary to remind you that downloading copyright software, movies, and music, is an illegal offense, and that they do not actually have any of those files on the server. A private tracker is a tracker that only [[snob]]s can use. They are generally restricted by passwords and the users are carefully watched to ensure that they are breaking the law just as much as everybody else is by maintaining what is called a "ratio." If you use private trackers you're going to get it from ego-maniac moderators. ==Popular Bittorent Sites== Just as there are several Bittorrent clients to download your movies, there are also several Bittorrent tracker sites from which to choose. Here is a brief (and we mean really brief) list of active tracker sites. *[http://isohunt.com/ Isohunt] *[http://www.bitsoup.org/ Bitsoup] *[http://www.demonoid.com/ Demonoid] *[http://www.bitenova.nl/ BiteNova] *[http://www.torrentportal.com/ Torrent Portal] *[http://thepiratebay.org/ The Pirate Bay] *[http://www.torrentscan.com/ Torrentscan] *[http://www.torrentmatrix.com/ Torrentmatrix] *[http://www.mininova.org/ Mininova] *[http://btjunkie.org/ BTJunkie] *[http://www.torrentreactor.net/ Torrentreactor] *[http://torrentpond.com/ Torrent Pond - an engine that searches all the popular tracker sites so you can be even lazier] =P2P= '''P2P''' is an acronym for <s>Peer-to-Peer</s> Pirate-To-Pirate which describes a decentralized way to steal from the [[RIAA]], the [[MPAA]] and the BSA. It's basically an anarcho-communist economic system in action. == Origins == [[Image:Blockbuster.jpg|thumb|Blockbuster buster.]] [[Image:Best-p2p.jpg|thumb|Teamwork gets it done.]] [[Image:Somali-pirates1.jpg|thumb|No, those pirates actually leave the house.]] [[Image:Downloading-communism.jpg|thumb|You know it's true.]] People the world over have enjoyed stealing from The Man. With the advent of the internets, [[Goons|pirates]] can now stick it to [[W|The Man]] without having to haul their [[Fat|gelatinous]] husks out of their [[basement dweller|parents' basement]]. == [[Drama]] == The various business associations and groups mentioned earlier have been fighting piracy and [[The Game|losing]] for [[at least 100|years]]. Not until [[Internet_police|Hilary Rosen]] got [[butthurt|upset]] about Napster did piracy become a real issue. After Metallica's Lars Ulrich discovered the [[internets]], he realized that [[money|poor]] people and kids were downloading his precious [[Jenkem|music]]. After much [[E-lawyer|legal wrangling]] and [[nerd|nerd rage]], Napster was shut down and the P2P networks rose from the ashes. == Piracy Today == Grokster and others have fallen in the wake of continued assaults on piracy, but the internet always finds a better way to commit e-theft. BitTorrent is the de facto standard protocol of pirates everywhere now, and the old standbys [[IRC]] and [[Usenet]] soldier on as the most reliable source of mp3's, movies and warez. Some users don't even have cable TV service anymore, as they download all the TV shows and movies they watch. In early 2008 the Australian high court got pissed off at P2P websites for providing downloads for the [[banhammer]]ed TV show ''Underbelly''. After much whining and threats of [[lolsuit]]s they eventually realized there was nothing they could do, something that displeased Australia's most violent gangs. == P2P=Communism == {{squote|Shall we keep in place legal protections that promote the free market, or shall we tear down those protections in such a way as to allow the black market to prosper and dominate?" he asked. "If we have learned anything over the past 50 years with the collapse of communism and the triumph of free-market capitalism, we have learned that abusing private property rights actually leads to less creativity, less technological development and less freedom.|[[MPAA|Dan Glickman]]|Bringing back McCarthy's ghost.}} == Other Use == P2P also stands for pay-to-play, usually when involving [[MMORPG]]s. For example, ''EverQuest'' is considered P2P while ''Maple Story'' is not, but [[Nobody|who cares]]? ==Popular P2P networks== *Napster *Underbelly *Kazaa *Bearshare *Joost *Hotline *Limewire =Related Articles= *[[MPAA]] *[[Photoshop]] *[[AXXo]] [[Category:Internet Phenomena]] [[Category:Netspeak]] [[Category:Software]]

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