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RIAA, MPAA - ISOHunt

4. February 2007, 15:03 Uhradmin

With the Record Industry Association of America having long contributed to the demise of file sharing protocols like Limewire, digital music downloaders have switched their focus to the popular open source realm of torrents. One of the most popular indexes is isoHunt, which lists nearly half a million torrents in its own database and another 33 million peers. Because of this popularity, it’s one of the first victims of the RIAA and MPAA’s attempt to shut down torrents. As a result, isoHunt is offline.

Not long ago, isoHunt founder Gary Fung appeared on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) news source The National. In that interview, Fung explained how the BitTorrent world could become a legitimate distributor of all internet media.

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.