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Term used by the warez scene
Topsite is a term used by the warez scene to refer to underground, highly secretive, high-speed FTP servers used by release groups and couriers for distribution, storage and archiving of warez releases. Topsites have very high-bandwidth Internet connections, commonly supporting transfer speeds of hundreds to thousands of megabits per second (Mb/s); enough to transfer a full Blu-ray in seconds. Topsites also have very high storage capacity; a total of many tebibytes was typical in 2006. It was common for home computers in these years to have access to broadband internet link with 1–1.5 Mb/s and 80–120 GiB of storage. Generally the characteristics of the link and (especially) storage can be at least two or three orders of magnitude above home appliances. Early on these warez sites were mainly distributing software such as games and applications after the release groups removed any protections. Now they are also a source of other copyright-protected works such as movies and music. It is strictly prohibited for sites to charge for access to the content, due to decreased security, and sites found doing so are shunned by the topsite community. Wikipedia →
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Noun A high-speed FTP server used to store and distribute warez.
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