BitTorrent
BitTorrent is a key protocol and has millions of users simultaneously and actively sharing and downloading hundreds of thousands of files of all types: music, movies, books, and so on.
We have already had an overview of what the Peer-to-peer and Hybrid architectures are. BitTorrent falls more in the hybrid category than pure P2P. Here it is on a spectrum of decentralization:
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