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The Ares P2P filesharing system includes support for the BitTorrent protocol, is accessible behind firewalls, and is the only P2P filesharing system that can be used reliably (usually) behind University and College networks. Where does the name come from?

Ares was a Greek God of terrifying proportions. His name actually came to mean warlike in Classical times, and he was actually disliked by the Greek Gods because he was too warlike (and when you think about how violet those Gods and Goddesses were, that is quite the feat). Although Ares was a God his nasty nature meant he wasn’t liked enough to warrant putting him in much of the mythology (and even then only as the bad guy). Those crazy Spartans absolutely loved him, though, as anyone who has seen the film 300 will appreciate.

But the makers of Ares software were not the first people to use the Ares name: NASA have used it for one of their rockets, too. The Ares rocket is a big hulking thing capable of lifting 130 metric tons into low earth orbit. Wow.

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