Editing EXeem (section)

{{short description|Defunct peer-to-peer file sharing client}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}}{{lowercase|eXeem}}'''eXeem''' was a [[peer-to-peer]] (P2P) [[file sharing]] [[Client (computing)|client]] using the [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]] [[Communications protocol|protocol]]. eXeem was designed to replace the need for [[Centralized system|centralized]] trackers<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article.ns/?id=dn6830|title=Movie file-sharing hubs poised to decentralise|last=Knight|first=Will|date=22 December 2004|website=New Scientist|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050107085132/https://www.newscientist.com/article.ns/?id=dn6830|archive-date=7 January 2005|url-status=dead|access-date=25 July 2019}}</ref> (servers which co-ordinate the transfer of [[metadata]] across a BitTorrent [[computer network|network]]). It largely failed to achieve this goal, and the project was canceled and eXeem's network was shut down by the end of 2005.

eXeem was written in [[C++]] using the open source [[libtorrent]] library for its BitTorrent functionality.