Magnet URI scheme

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What Wikipedia says

Magnet is a URI scheme that defines the format of magnet links, a de facto standard for identifying files (URN) by their content, via cryptographic hash value rather than by their location.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Magnet URI scheme”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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