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179: 33: 393:, Bitzi can sometimes provide additional confidence that a file is as expected, before a user begins a long download. In such a role, Bitzi served to ameliorate some common 143:
data set and reference work, described by Bitzi as a "digital media encyclopedia". The Bitpedia was published through the Bitzi website and web services under an
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versions, offered an option to look up local files or network search results at Bitzi for more information about their contents or quality.
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details, user ratings, and free-form comments or descriptions. Users could displace flawed information with new contributions.
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was a website, operating from 2001 to 2013, where volunteers shared reports about any kind of digital file, with identifying
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Bitzi originated several popular standards in the peer-to-peer file sharing sphere, including the
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Bitzi's standards and services have been adopted by a number of popular
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Data about specific files can also be programmatically retrieved via a
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Information contributed and rated by volunteers was compiled into the
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As peer-to-peer file sharing networks often have mislabeled or
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Other file-specific metadata was also collected, such as
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At Bitzi, files were identified by applying a strong
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Bitpedia

verification
improve this article
adding citations to reliable sources
"Bitzi"
news
newspapers
books
scholar
JSTOR
Learn how and when to remove this message
metadata
open content
Creative Commons
peer-to-peer file sharing
metadata publishing
San Francisco

adding to it
Gordon Mohr
Mike Linksvayer
hash function
fingerprint
file
open source
media file types
cross-referenced
Uniform Resource Identifiers
clients

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