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How a BitTorrent transfer works, from magnet link to seeding
Is a torrent client safe to run?
Piecewise: how a peer to peer transfer actually works
Seeders, leechers and peers: what the numbers in a client mean
The file sharing era, in order
The vocabulary of a peer to peer transfer
Torrent clients: what they are and how they differ
What peer to peer means, and what still runs on it
What the protocol carries every day
Why a transfer is slow, in the order worth checking

An independent guide to BitTorrent, the peer to peer transfer protocol and the client software that speaks it.

About Piecewise
Every page on Piecewise
How a BitTorrent transfer works, from magnet link to seeding
Is a torrent client safe to run?
- Is a torrent client legal? The distinction the law draws
- What encryption in a torrent client does and does not hide
Piecewise: how a peer to peer transfer actually works
Seeders, leechers and peers: what the numbers in a client mean
- Share ratio: the number, and what a good one looks like
- What seeding means, and what happens when you stop
The file sharing era, in order
- eMule, eDonkey and the server era
- Napster: what it was, and what happened to it
  - The Napster lawsuits and what the courts decided
The vocabulary of a peer to peer transfer
Torrent clients: what they are and how they differ
What peer to peer means, and what still runs on it
What the protocol carries every day
- Linux images by torrent, and why distributions prefer it
- The Internet Archive and its torrents
Why a transfer is slow, in the order worth checking
- Firewalled, NAT and the listening port
- Stalled, stuck on metadata, and other transfers that will not start

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Piecewise is a new and independent reference. It is not connected to any previous owner of this domain, nor to the peer to peer client that was published from this address in 2005, and it claims no continuity with either. It explains the technology: nothing is sold here, nothing is downloaded from here, no site, tracker or index is listed anywhere on it, and nothing on it is legal advice to any reader.