knowledge/technology/internet/BitTorrent.md

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# BitTorrent
[BitTorrent](https://www.bittorrent.org/) is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner.

Users on the BitTorrent Network are not anonymous, because everyones [IP](Internet%20Protocol.md) address is known. To torrent anonymously one can use the [I2P](I2P.md) Network with i2psnark.
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			`aliases: ["Torrent"]`
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init 2023-12-04 10:02:23 +00:00			`# BitTorrent`
			`[BitTorrent](https://www.bittorrent.org/) is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner.`

add ip 2024-06-02 18:43:53 +00:00			`Users on the BitTorrent Network are not anonymous, because everyones [IP](Internet%20Protocol.md) address is known. To torrent anonymously one can use the [I2P](I2P.md) Network with i2psnark.`