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Rainberry, Inc., the Glossary

Rainberry, Inc., formerly known as BitTorrent, Inc., is an American company responsible for μTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline.^[1]

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Accel (company)

Accel, formerly known as Accel Partners, is an American venture capital firm.

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Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains (often abbreviated as AIC) is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Ashwin Navin (born c.1977) is an American entrepreneur, who is the CEO and co-founder of Samba TV, a data and analytics service that measures television viewership using opt-in data from Internet-connected devices and set-top boxes. Rainberry, Inc. and Ashwin Navin are BitTorrent.

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BitTorrent

BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, 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.

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BitTorrent (software)

BitTorrent is a proprietary adware BitTorrent client developed by Bram Cohen and Rainberry, Inc. used for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent protocol.

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Blockchain

A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes.

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Bram Cohen

Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol in 2001, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent. Rainberry, Inc. and Bram Cohen are BitTorrent.

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Business Insider

Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.

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C++

C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.

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Chromium (web browser)

Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, primarily developed and maintained by Google.

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Client (computing)

Client is a computer that gets information from another computer called server in the context of client–server model of computer networks.

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Communication protocol

A communication protocol is a system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any variation of a physical quantity.

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Company

A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective.

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Comparison of BitTorrent clients

The following is a general comparison of BitTorrent clients, which are computer programs designed for peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. Rainberry, Inc. and comparison of BitTorrent clients are BitTorrent.

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D-Link

D-Link Systems, Inc. (formerly Datex Systems, Inc.) is a Taiwanese multinational manufacturer of networking hardware and telecoms equipments.

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Data

In common usage, data is a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally.

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Distributed computing

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers.

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Distributed hash table

A distributed hash table (DHT) is a distributed system that provides a lookup service similar to a hash table.

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DLive

DLive is an American video live streaming service which was founded in 2017.

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Download

In computer networks, download means to receive data from a remote system, typically a server such as a web server, an FTP server, an email server, or other similar systems.

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Eric Klinker

Eric Klinker is an American technology executive and is best known as the former CEO of BitTorrent. Rainberry, Inc. and Eric Klinker are BitTorrent.

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Freeware

Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.

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ΜTorrent

μTorrent, or uTorrent (see pronunciation), is a proprietary adware BitTorrent client owned and developed by Rainberry, Inc. The "μ" (Greek letter "mu") in its name comes from the SI prefix "micro-", referring to the program's small memory footprint: the program was designed to use minimal computer resources while offering functionality comparable to larger BitTorrent clients such as Vuze or BitComet.

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January 6 United States Capitol attack

On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. was attacked by a mob of supporters of then-U.S. president Donald Trump, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

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Justin Sun

Justin Sun (born July 30, 1990) is a Chinese-born Grenadian cryptocurrency entrepreneur and business executive.

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Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American rock band formed in Agoura Hills, California, in 1996.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Madonna

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Marvell Technology

Marvell Technology, Inc. is an American company, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, which develops and produces semiconductors and related technology.

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Melco

Melco Holdings Inc. is a family business founded by Makoto Maki in 1975 and is located in Japan.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Netgear

Netgear, Inc. (stylized as NETGEAR in all caps), is an American computer networking company based in San Jose, California, with offices in about 22 other countries.

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Open-source license

Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared.

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Opera (company)

Opera (formerly Opera Software AS) is a multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Oslo, Norway with additional offices in Europe, China, and Africa.

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PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.

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Peer-to-peer file sharing

Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology.

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Peer-to-peer web hosting

Peer-to-peer web hosting is using peer-to-peer networking to distribute access to webpages.

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Phantom Limb (Alice in Chains song)

"Phantom Limb" is a song by the American rock band Alice in Chains and the tenth track on their fifth studio album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013).

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Pixies (band)

The Pixies are an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts formed in 1986 by Black Francis (vocals, rhythm guitar, songwriter), Joey Santiago (lead guitar), Kim Deal (bass, vocals) and David Lovering (drums).

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Privately held company

A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

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Public Enemy

Public Enemy is an American hip hop group formed by Chuck D and Flavor Flav on Long Island, New York, in 1985.

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QNAP Systems

QNAP Systems, Inc. is a Taiwanese corporation that specializes in network-attached storage (NAS) appliances used for file sharing, virtualization, storage management and surveillance applications.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Southern Poverty Law Center

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.

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Thom Yorke

Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the main vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Radiohead.

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TorrentFreak

TorrentFreak (TF) is a blog dedicated to reporting the latest news and trends on the BitTorrent protocol and file sharing, as well as on copyright infringement and digital rights. Rainberry, Inc. and TorrentFreak are BitTorrent.

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Tron (cryptocurrency)

TRON is a decentralized, blockchain-based operating system with smart contract functionality, proof-of-stake principles as its consensus algorithm and a cryptocurrency native to the system, known as Tronix (TRX).

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Upload

Uploading refers to transmitting data from one computer system to another through means of a network.

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User interface

In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur.

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Video game livestreaming

The live streaming of video games is an activity where people broadcast themselves playing games to a live audience online.

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Virgin Media is a telecommunications company from Britain, founded in 2007, which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom.

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Website

A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainberry,_Inc.

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Rainberry, Inc., the Glossary

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BitTorrent

Technology companies established in 2004

Video game platforms

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