Archivos October 2008


Buzz Out Loud 843: Nine legal uses for BitTorrent
CNET News, CA - Oct 31, 2008
Our listeners provided not seven, not eight, but nine real legal legitimate uses for BitTorrent. Plus Apple's getting in an old fashioned spat with IBM. ...

Tivo and Netflix: the underdogs band together
Atlantic Online - Oct 31, 2008
The deal makes a lot of sense: both companies are struggling, competing with Bittorrent and the cable companies to keep their business models alive. ...

Boxee Wants to Enlist TV Pirates to Grow Hulu’s Audience
NewTeeVee, CA - 3 hours ago
The Boxee software includes a BitTorrent client, but Mathews told me that the system only lists legal torrents. Still, many users will probably have ...

Windows 7 pre-beta hits BitTorrent
ZDNet.com.au, Australia - Oct 30, 2008
Well known BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay and Mininova were at the time of publication hosting multiple downloads of the newly aired operating ...

Pirate Bay Talk: How To Dismantle a Billion Dollar Industry
TorrentFreak - 12 hours ago
The two discuss how The Pirate Bay grew to be the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, and some of the challenges they face today. ...

Ubuntu 8.10 Released, Includes Bootable USB Maker
Lifehacker, CA - 4 hours ago
... and if your ISO downloads or upgrades are going slow today, read up on upgrading using BitTorrent or grabbing updates and ISOs from a mirror server. ...

Macworld

KavaMovies movie database debuts
Macworld, CA - Oct 30, 2008
Toolbar buttons let you buy movies from Amazon.com on DVD or download them from the iTunes Store. The software also incorporates BitTorrent search and ...

TechRadar.com

Jamie's Random Musings on Video IM
ZDNet UK, UK - Oct 30, 2008
However, if you are able to download via BitTorrent, you could go directly to the Ubuntu BitTorrent download page and pick it up from there. ...
Hands on: Ubuntu 8.10 review TechRadar.com
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Product Reviews

Go! Ubuntu Linux 8.10, Intrepid Ibex - Installation Tips
ZDNet UK, UK - 1 hour ago
However, if you are able to download via BitTorrent, you could go directly to the Ubuntu BitTorrent download page and pick it up from there. ...
Download Ubuntu Linux 8.10, Intrepid Ibex today Product Reviews
all 2 news articles

Anti-Piracy Methods in Doubt after Accused Downloaders Found to be ...
ShortNews.com, Germany - 2 hours ago
Some users of peer-to-peer networks such as Gnutella, BitTorrent, and eDonkey, and other users who don't use these downloading services, are being wrongly ...

Hollywood, Courts Shuttering US-based Infringing Websites
Wired News - Oct 29, 2008
That means there is no direct US legal precedent saying yea or nay to BitTorrent tracking-movie-linking sites -- although many have shuttered after being ...

How To Upgrade Ubuntu Using BitTorrent
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - Oct 29, 2008
To help you avoid this problem altogether, the TorrentFreak weblog details how to use BitTorrent to upgrade to the newest release—Intrepid Ibex—set to ...

TorrentFreak

Use BitTorrent to Upgrade to Ubuntu ‘Intrepid Ibex’
TorrentFreak - Oct 29, 2008
With BitTorrent, however, this can be easily avoided. Most users of Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu are familiar with BitTorrent. ...

P2Pnet Wins Landmark ‘Hyperlinking” Case
TorrentFreak - 15 hours ago
Since the case is about linking, the outcome will have implications for all websites on the Internet, including BitTorrent sites. ...

LimeWire and Comedy Central Make Distribution Deal
Slyck, NY - 21 hours ago
Is it a BitTorrent application? A social network? A music store? How about a distribution point for Comedy Central's wares? It seems LimeWire is becoming ...

KavaSoft announces KavaMovies 1.0, the Mac movie database
prMac (press release), TX - Oct 29, 2008
And downloading with BitTorrent has never been simpler: one click to search, another click to start the download in your favorite client. ...

Gigs & Bytes: The Web Sheriff Rides Again
Pollstar - 1 hour ago
... tech tabloid The Register, which also reports that some of the "objectionable" content includes unauthorized photographs and links to BitTorrent sites. ...

TorrentFreak

Tribler Set to Make BitTorrent Sites Obsolete
TorrentFreak - Oct 28, 2008
The Tribler BitTorrent client, a project run by researchers from several European universities and Harvard, is the first to incorporate decentralized search ...

New ISP Snooping Tech Doesn't Work With BitTorrent
Dslreports - Oct 28, 2008
How exactly is the "entertainment industry" have anything to do with child porn? I wasn't aware they sold child porn? Another thing. ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - 9 hours ago
TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading ...

Mvix MvixBOX WDN-2000 dual-drive NAS with Bittorrent
SlashGear, AZ - Oct 28, 2008
Mvix have announced their latest NAS device, the MvixBOX WDN-2000 2-Bay Ultra Performance NAS/Media Server, complete with remote file access, bittorrent ...

ISP Level Anti-Piracy System Neutralized By BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 28, 2008
Installed at the ISP level so that users can’t easily bypass it, ‘Copyrouter’ is defeated by BitTorrent. During recent weeks, a ‘new’ anti-piracy system has ...
New ISP Snooping Tech Doesn't Work With BitTorrent Will ISPs be ... Dslreports
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Bryan Adams pulls a Prince on fan sites
Register, UK - Oct 27, 2008
He claimed it carried links to BitTorrent sites and “pirated material”. Discussions are ongoing to get it to agree to become an official site by linking to ...

Bryan Adams pulls a Prince on fan sites
Register, UK - 59 minutes ago
He claimed it carried links to BitTorrent sites and “pirated material”. Discussions are ongoing to get it to agree to become an official site by linking to ...

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - 11 hours ago
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent. A lot of newcomers, while “Kung Fu Panda” tops the chart this week. We do not link to actual torrent files ...

Calgary Herald

AC/DC ALBUM LOOKS TO BE A MONSTER HIT ONLINE AND OFF
Globe and Mail, Canada - Oct 27, 2008
According to TorrentFreak, just five days after the album was leaked on BitTorrent it had already been downloaded about 400000 times. ...
That's still the way AC/DC wants to rock 'n' roll USA Today
all 148 news articles

p2pnet.net

2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools online
p2pnet.net, Canada - Oct 25, 2008
The full Wikipedia for Schools selection is available via BitTorrent. If you don’t already have a BitTorrent download application, enter ‘BitTorrent client‘ ...

TorrentFreak

Stoners, Vegans and a Junky Elephant Conquer BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 25, 2008
So just how much exposure is this movie getting on BitTorrent? Although ‘Free Jimmy’ only came out officially in the UK on October 17th 2008, ...

New Wikipedia DVD Available On BitTorrent
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - Oct 24, 2008
The 2.9GB download is available only via BitTorrent, and to top it off, here's a quote you don't hear every day: "It helps our charity if you keep µTorrent ...

Calgary Herald

AC/DC album not hurt by downloads
Globe and Mail, Canada - Oct 24, 2008
According to TorrentFreak, just five days after the album was leaked on BitTorrent it had already been downloaded 400000 times. Download-tracking firm Big ...
That's still the way AC/DC wants to rock 'n' roll USA Today
all 140 news articles

Wikipedia DVD Released on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 24, 2008
The 08/09 edition can be downloaded for free, via BitTorrent only, and comprises over 5500 hand-picked educational articles aimed at helping schools to ...

Beyond Parental Controls - Macworld

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Beyond Parental Controls
Macworld, CA - Oct 24, 2008
Some BitTorrent clients use port forwarding to work around the firewall, which means you can’t stop downloads, no matter which firewall setting you choose. ...

Busted for "stealing pixels"
Computerworld, MA - Oct 23, 2008
I could quit feeling guilty about the five Bittorrent streams I have going as I am typing this post! I mean, uhhh... nevermind... If the argument had been ...

BtReAnnounceR Brings Dead Torrents Back To Life
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 16 hours ago
Most of the time a BitTorrent download gets stuck, it's because the tracker can no longer find seeders who have the entire file available for download. ...

TorrentFreak

Sweden to Introduce Controversial Anti-Piracy Law
TorrentFreak - 2 hours ago
The many unsecured Wireless routers complicate the evidence gathering even further, and BitTorrent trackers have also implemented countermeasures of their ...

Internet Bans Greet Illegal File Sharers at Bowling Green State U.
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - Oct 23, 2008
... BitTorrent, and Gnutella, The BG News, the university’s student newspaper, reported this week. For first-time offenders, the suspension lasts 24 hours. ...

How To Choose the Best Network Storage for a Mac/PC Home
Gizmodo - Oct 23, 2008
Because even my parents have a billion photos on their hard drive, and they know nothing of BitTorrent and Handbrake. An NAS sits there in a corner, ...

Three million downloads of OpenOffice.org in one week
Tectonic, South Africa - 43 minutes ago
With many more people downloading over the Bittorrent network, from other mirrors or simply though shared disks, the actual number is no doubt a lot higher. ...

STUDY: P2P Consumes 22% of Downstream, 61% of Upstream Bandwidth
Zeropaid, CA - 17 hours ago
Research by infamous BitTorrent throttling company Sandvine makes the argument for "effective network traffic optimization techniques. ...

TorrentFreak

How to Bring Dead Torrents Back to Life
TorrentFreak - 9 hours ago
Eventually, particularly when trying to download old torrents, most BitTorrent users find themselves with a transfer which stops due to the swarm having no ...

e-linux.it

Development Release: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3
e-linux.it, Italy - 10 hours ago
Full installation DVD images are only available via BitTorrent: openSUSE-11.1-Beta3-DVD-i386.iso (3766MB), openSUSE-11.1-Beta3-DVD-x86_64.iso (3952MB).
Distribution Release: Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r2 e-linux.it
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eFluxMedia

Comcast Deploys 50 MBS High Speed Service
Slyck, NY - Oct 22, 2008
The FCC, in a 3-2 ruling, found that Comcast had violated the principles of net neutrality by inhibiting BitTorrent traffic. While Comcast suffered a black ...
Comcast Begins Rollout of 50Mbps High-Speed Internet Service Zeropaid
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2008-09 Wikipedia for schools goes online
Wikinews, FL - Oct 22, 2008
WN Will you be making use of BitTorrent for distribution again this year? Was it a success in 2007? AC: BitTorrent was a bit disappointing in that it got us ...

China: Photographs and scanned ID cards at Internet Bar
Global Voices Online, MA - 7 hours ago
An early comment explains that the move would make downloading copyrighted files through services such as BitTorrent illegal. Zhang Mingqing, vice chairman ...

BUFFALO Quad-Ruples consumer shared storage
WebWire (press release), GA - 22 hours ago
The LinkStation Quad features a new BitTorrent client, enabling consumers to access and download multimedia files without the need of a PC running during ...
Review: Buffalo's 1TB LinkStation Mini -- a lot of storage in a ... Computerworld
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Japan: Outlawing Illegal Downloads
Global Voices Online, MA - 23 hours ago
An early comment explains that the move would make downloading files through services such as BitTorrent illegal. So how, and why, do you outlaw something ...

TorrentFreak

‘Shocking’ 61% of all Upstream Internet Traffic is P2P
TorrentFreak - 22 hours ago
Sandvine, best known for manufacturing the hardware that slowed down BitTorrent users on Comcast, has released an Internet traffic trends report today. ...

P2P Traffic to Quadruple - Red Herring

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P2P Traffic to Quadruple
Red Herring, CA - Oct 21, 2008
That could be bad news for broadband service providers such as Comcast that have been at war with P2P traffic-generating startups such as BitTorrent. ...
P2P Traffic to Grow 400% in 5 Years Slyck
Study: P2P Traffic Becomes More Legitimate, Higher Growth Expected TMCnet
P2P explodes by 400 per cent - and it's not all illegal Silicon.com
IT Business Net - MarketWatch
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P2P Traffic to Grow 400% in 5 Years
Slyck, NY - 1 hour ago
That's a bold prediction, considering that authorized music/video stores from BitTorrent, LimeWire, and Azureus currently represent a minimal piece of the ...

BITTORENT WATCHERS DOWNLOADING OLDER MOVIES
Contactmusic.com, UK - 13 hours ago
Suggesting that BitTorrent users are not always trying to get a look at the most recently released films, the website TorrentFreak.com claimed Monday that ...
DVD Review: Journey To The Center Of The Earth (2008) Hollywood News
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TorrentFreak

Pirate Bay Celebrates Microsoft’s Global Anti-Piracy Day
TorrentFreak - 20 hours ago
Although the company does send out DMCA takedown requests to BitTorrent site owners, Millions of Microsoft products are being pirated on BitTorrent and ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 21, 2008
TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading ...

Fable II and Gears 2 stolen; Gears also on BitTorrent
ElectricPig.tv, UK - Oct 21, 2008
In possibly unrelated news, a RAR file of Gears 2 has appeared on BitTorrent sites. It being a 6.76 GB file and utterly illegal to download, ...
Technicolor employee caught stealing games Play.tm
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Starz shines light on digital deals
C21Media, UK - 23 hours ago
He said that despite BitTorrent's attempts to turn its huge audience into buyers of legal content, Starz hadn't seen enough evidence this was happening with ...

ZeroPaid Interviews FilesTube - a Web Search Tool for Files
Zeropaid, CA - 11 hours ago
For some who are familiar with p2p clients like LimeWire, eMule or BitTorrent, it may be just another file-sharing tool that might be useful for finding the ...

Lifehacker Australia

NICTA Preps P2P Engine For Game Developers
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 7 hours ago
... before this technology hits the average consumer, but it's a timely reminder that the need for P2P development didn't die when BitTorrent appeared. ...
NICTA slashes hosting costs for MMO P2P networks iT News
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Lost , in Translation: The Internet's Subtitle Underground
Wired News - 18 hours ago
(Just fire up BitTorrent in Bangladesh, Belgium, or Bolivia.) But there's one big problem: The shows are in English. That's where people like Pablo Díaz ...

Pirate Bay Tricks Anti-Pirates with Fake Peers
TorrentFreak - 20 hours ago
Most often, companies such as BayTSP and MediaSentry are hired to connect to BitTorrent trackers, and send takedown notices to the users (via their ISP) who ...

Consumer Electronics Association predicts 3.5 percent sales growth ...
CrunchGear, NY - 15 hours ago
Frankly, as long as I have a World of Warcraft account and access to Usenet/BitTorrent I’m golden. I shall not want!
In Las Vegas, BC (Before the Craziness) New York Times Blogs
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Communications Technology

Net Management Upshot: Users, Not Apps
Communications Technology, MD - 8 hours ago
The agency held that Comcast was engaging in "discriminatory" practices by interfering with peer-to-peer (P2P) applications such as BitTorrent. ...

Gears of War 2 leaked, all over BitTorrent, Usenet
CrunchGear, NY - Oct 20, 2008
By Nicholas Deleon Wow, Gears of War 2 has now leaked and can be found all over the place. I just checked Usenet, and it’s there waiting for you. ...
Man Arrested For Gears 2 & Fable 2 Theft Kotaku.com
Man arrested in connection with 100 stolen copies of Gears of War ... CrunchGear
all 4 news articles

Vuze 4.0 - A Beginner's Guide to BitTorrent
Zeropaid, CA - Oct 20, 2008
Vuze, formerly Azureus, has launched a new 4.0 version that takes BitTorrent downloading into exciting new directions. Vuze 4.0 sports the lighter look and ...

isoHunt Indexes over 1 Petabyte of Information
Slyck, NY - Oct 19, 2008
isoHunt, the embattled BitTorrent indexer residing in Canada, passed a significant milestone recently - albeit on that went largely over looked. ...

Newzbin isn't going down without a fight
Afterdawn.com - 20 hours ago
Slyck defines Newzbin as operating "similarly to BitTorrent indexing sites, as they both act like card catalogs in a library. Similar to BitTorrent ...

RE[5]: relevant? - OS News

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RE[5]: relevant?
OS News - 19 hours ago
... it only really effects performance when I'm doing something extreme like using BitTorrent to download large, several-hundred-megabyte (or larger) files.

Weekend tech reading (10.19) - TechSpot

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Weekend tech reading (10.19)
TechSpot - Oct 19, 2008
Stanford University Embraces BitTorrent While some universities restrict the use of BitTorrent clients, others embrace the popular filesharing protocol and ...

Stanford University uses BitTorrent to share files
CD Freaks.com, Netherlands - Oct 18, 2008
Stanford University has found a positive use for file sharing, using BitTorrent to help distribute course materials from 10 of its most popular electrical ...

TorrentFreak

Stanford University Embraces BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 18, 2008
While some universities restrict the use of BitTorrent clients, others embrace the popular flilesharing protocol and use it to spread knowledge. ...

University Program Director Asks Readers to Pirate His eBook
ReadWriteWeb, CA - Oct 18, 2008
The increasing usage of BitTorrent services has been a living nightmare for big industry publishers. The RIAA is one of the most notable opponents of ...

Vuze gets another makeover - ITvoir

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Vuze gets another makeover
ITvoir, India - 8 minutes ago
Never let it be said that software publishers ignore the demands of their users, at least in the case of BitTorrent client Vuze. Back in June, the popular ...

Corporate Notes - IndUS Business Journal

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Corporate Notes
IndUS Business Journal, MA - Oct 17, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO – BitTorrent, a provider of technology for the delivery of rich media on the Internet, recently appointed Mitchell Edwards as BitTorrent’s ...

Vuze gets another makeover - CNET News

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Vuze gets another makeover
CNET News, CA - Oct 17, 2008
Never let it be said that software publishers ignore the demands of their users, at least in the case of BitTorrent client Vuze. Back in June, the popular ...

acrobat reader 3 0 1 serial number
Radio en TV Arnhem, Netherlands - 2 hours ago
... bony m photo, StarFuck v0 83 -BitTorrent -Forum, Activation Code civilization 3 conquest, prince of persia warrior within java game free download, ...

TorrentFreak

Sweet, BitTorrent Users - Pirate My Book Please!
TorrentFreak - Oct 17, 2008
In true BitTorrent style, he’s not selling his work, but asking people to please pirate it, courtesy of Mininova’s CDN. BitTorrent needs to do things to ...

CBC.ca

CRTC delays ruling on Bell's throttling
CBC.ca, Canada - Oct 17, 2008
By Peter Nowak, CBC News Bell began slowing, or throttling, the speeds of its own customers using peer-to-peer software such as BitTorrent last November. ...

P2P Power: slashing the need for servers
p2pnet.net, Canada - 21 hours ago
p2pnet news view | P2P:- BitTorrent is cast in the role of P2P file sharing villain. But that’s only the jaundiced view of the venal corporate movie and ...

NetBSD 4.01 released - Heise Online

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NetBSD 4.01 released
Heise Online, Germany - Oct 17, 2008
NetBSD is available to download from mirrors of the project and the developers encourage users who wish to download ISO images to use the BitTorrent torrent ...

'Do I Look Like a CEO?' - BusinessWeek

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BusinessWeek

'Do I Look Like a CEO?'
BusinessWeek - Oct 16, 2008
Even so, he started his own company, BitTorrent By Susan Berfield Bram Cohen's brain works differently from most people's. He has Asperger's syndrome, ...
He left the CEO post, much to his relief BusinessWeek
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TorrentFreak

DistriBrute: P2P Powered Desktop Deployment
TorrentFreak - Oct 16, 2008
With DistriBrute, the first P2P based desktop deployment product, this is no longer needed - thanks to the BitTorrent protocol. DistriBrute is a brand new ...

He left the CEO post, much to his relief
BusinessWeek - Oct 16, 2008
After Bram Cohen created BitTorrent software, he diagnosed himself with Asperger's, a condition that makes everyday life hard. ...

p2pnet.net

Feds should leave Internet service providers alone: Analyst
ITWorld Canada, Canada - Oct 16, 2008
In the US, Comcast throttled BitTorrent traffic until earlier this year, when an uproar caused it to shift gears and come up with a new strategy: Impose a ...
CRTC delays Bell traffic throttling decision p2pnet.net
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The Pirate Bay Removes Fake Trackers from Torrents
TorrentFreak - Oct 16, 2008
In an attempt to make BitTorrent more secure, and to reduce some of the load on their own tracker, The Pirate Bay has started to remove all duplicate, ...

Newzbin Prepares for Litigation - Slyck

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Newzbin Prepares for Litigation
Slyck, NY - Oct 15, 2008
Newzbin operates similarly to BitTorrent indexing sites, as they both act like card catalogs in a library. Similar to BitTorrent indexing/tracking sites, ...
Giganews Deconstructs Cuomo's Child Porn 'Crackdown' BroadbandReports.com
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Textbook Torrent 'Now Permanently Offline'
Zeropaid, CA - 13 hours ago
Admin blames "concern of legal action" and "upkeep of a site this size" for his decision to permanently close down the BitTorrent tracker site. ...

Gawker

In Rainbows Download Stats Revealed
Stereogum, NY - 6 hours ago
But while BitTorrent downloads outnumbered downloads from the official site, the band made more money even before the physical release than they did on ...
Radiohead's Innovative Approach Paid Off...Or Did It? The Business Sheet
Radiohead Stunt Somehow Pays Off Gawker
In Rainbows sales stats revealed Prefixmag
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Washington Post

OpenOffice 3 goes native on the Mac
Register, UK - Oct 15, 2008
For now, going to BitTorrent and waiting until the weekend to download the software, after the rush will surely have passed, seem the most sensible options. ...
Demand outstrips supply for OpenOffice VNUNet.com
OpenOffice's 3.0 release temporarily closes site CNET News
all 154 news articles

TorrentFreak

Donate Your Piracy Savings to Reduce Poverty
TorrentFreak - 18 hours ago
Let’s say you fire up your BitTorrent client because you want to download the latest album from your favorite artist. You use BitTorrent, which means that ...
Poverty affects education Examiner.com
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Exchanging e-mails with a pirate
NetworkWorld.com, MA - Oct 14, 2008
A torrent is a small file that contains information about another file, such as a movie, distributed using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. ...

Washington Post

Demand outstrips supply for OpenOffice
VNUNet.com, UK - 10 hours ago
The site does however include links to BitTorrent sites where the software can be downloaded. “Apologies—our Web site is struggling to cope with the ...
OpenOffice's 3.0 release temporarily closes site CNET News
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P2P Survival in a Commercialized World
Slyck, NY - 22 hours ago
BitTorrent is still sucking down bandwidth, eDonkey2000 is still finding rare files, and Gnutella continues to reliably find MP3 files. ...

Voices of the Web - HDTV.biz-news.com

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Voices of the Web
HDTV.biz-news.com, Switzerland - 8 hours ago
This approach differs from P2P file-sharing firms such as BitTorrent, which downloads an entire video file to a viewer's hard drive. ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 14, 2008
TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading ...

TorrentFreak

Vuze Reinvents Its BitTorrent Client
TorrentFreak - Oct 13, 2008
Vuze, formerly known as Azureus, will soon launch version 4.0 of their BitTorrent client. Inspired by feedback from users, the user interface has been ...

TorrentFreak

Artists See a Future With BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 13, 2008
A whole new generation of artists, most of who grew up with Napster, Limewire and BitTorrent, are starting to utilize the power of filesharing networks. ...
Lime Wire Adds Social Networking Features Wired News
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Vuze 4.0 - Sleek Redesign, Adds Private BitTorrent Tracker Search
Zeropaid, CA - Oct 13, 2008
The latest version of the Vuze BitTorrent client is definitely impressive. Vuze 4.0 sports the lighter look and feel of older versions while adding new ...
Vuze Takes A Gamble With New Client NewTeeVee
all 2 news articles

400000 People Really Don't Care About AC/DC Holding Itself Back ...
Idolator, NY - 21 hours ago
... not as 99-cent downloads, because Black Ice leaked last week, and according to estimates, it's been downloaded some 400000 times from BitTorrent alone. ...
AC/DC Releases New Album At Wal Mart TheCelebrityCafe.com
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New Democratic Party PM Candidate Praises P2P
Zeropaid, CA - 23 hours ago
PM candidate Jack Layton notes importance of net neutrality and how social networking and BitTorrent sites are "fundamental to making a democracy work" and ...

AC/DC's Black Ice downloaded illegally 400000 times
MusicRadar.com - The place for music makers, UK - 7 hours ago
The album was leaked onto YouTube and BitTorrent on October 7. While Sony's legal eagles quickly swooped in and succesfully pulled the record from YouTube, ...
AC/DC: "iTunes is going to kill music" TechRadar.com
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NME.com

AC/DC album downloaded 400000 times despite no digital release
NME.com, UK - 24 minutes ago
AC/DC's forthcoming new album, 'Black Ice', leaked onto file sharing service BitTorrent on October 7 and has been downloaded over 400000 times. ...

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 13, 2008
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” tops the chart for the second week in a row. ...
Get Indy With Various Accessories Cinema Blend
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Leaked ... AC/DC. - The Age

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Canada.com

Leaked ... AC/DC.
The Age, Australia - Oct 12, 2008
But now all 15 songs can be obtained in minutes from BitTorrent websites such as ThePirateBay.org. The online file sharing news site Torrentfreak reported ...
AC/DC album downloaded 400000 times despite no digital release NME.com
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New AC/DC album leaked online - WA today

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The Inquisitr

New AC/DC album leaked online
WA today, Australia - 56 minutes ago
But now all 15 songs can be obtained in minutes from BitTorrent websites such as ThePirateBay.org. The online file sharing news site Torrentfreak reported ...
AC/DC downloads hit 400000 prior to physical only release The Inquisitr
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RE[8]: Slow progress - OS News

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RE[8]: Slow progress
OS News - 11 hours ago
Paying for a bittorrent download wouldn't have made it any less illegal. Plus you have no idea which country he lives in. What we're seeing increasingly in ...

The Inquisitr

AC/DC downloads hit 400000 prior to physical only release
The Inquisitr, Australia - 12 hours ago
The downloads from BitTorrent may lead to increased sales of the new album; studies have previously found that downloaders are more likely to buy the ...

Fedora 10's snapshot scramble begins
ZDNet.com.au, Australia - 12 hours ago
"We are releasing these via BitTorrent only as it is a much lighter-weight method to get the bits out the door than to go through our mirroring system," he ...

TorrentFreak TV Launches - TorrentFreak

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TorrentFreak TV Launches
TorrentFreak - 2 hours ago
... the first episode of ‘TorrentFreak TV’, a recap of some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of BitTorrent. ...

TorrentFreak

AC/DC Electrify BitTorrent Album Downloads
TorrentFreak - Oct 12, 2008
However, the upcoming album has already been digitized by pirates, as it leaked to BitTorrent five days. In that time it has taken the trackers by storm, ...
AC/DC On Defying Time eFluxMedia
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Calgary Herald

Canadian Democrats are Pro BitTorrent and Against Throttling
TorrentFreak - Oct 11, 2008
Three days before the Canadian elections, the party leader of the New Democrats has spoken out in favor of BitTorrent sites, calling them “fundamental to ...
New Democratic Party PM Candidate Praises P2P Zeropaid
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EU regulations block Italian ISPs from blocking Pirate Bay
BetaNews - Oct 11, 2008
By Tim Conneally, BetaNews In August, Italian courts ordered that local ISPs block popular BitTorrent destination The Pirate Bay, but the decision was later ...
Romanian ISP blocks torrent site Afterdawn.com
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TorrentFreak

Real-Time BitTorrent Search Engines Expand
TorrentFreak - Oct 11, 2008
‘Real-Time’ BitTorrent search engines are the trend of 2008, and new sites emerge every other week. It all started in January with the launch of YouTorrent, ...

RE[7]: Slow progress
Newmobilecomputing.com - 20 hours ago
In the end, I had to download a copy of Office 2007 with bittorrent to let them finish the assignment. Thanks, that's the biggest laugh I've had all day. ...

TechSpot

Weekend open forum: Download accelerators and managers, are they ...
TechSpot - 16 hours ago
Then, for most of my gigabyte-plus downloads I always rely on a BitTorrent client (uTorrent is my favorite), which you may still call a specialized download ...

BitTorrent Textbook Tracker Shutters Amid Legal Threats
Wired News - Oct 10, 2008
By David Kravets October 10, 2008 | 4:51:25 PMCategories: BitTorrent A leading textbook torrent-tracking service has gone belly up. ...
TextBook Torrents Turns The Final Page and Closes Down TorrentFreak
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TechRadar.com

FREE SAILING FOR PIRATE BAY
Contactmusic.com, UK - 18 hours ago
Details of a ruling by an Italian court overturning a decree from a public prosecutor that blocked the BitTorrent search site The Pirate Bay indicate that ...
The Pirate Bay Italy block deemed illegal TechRadar.com
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AceShowbiz

ACDC's 'Black Ice' Leaked to BitTorrent
Zeropaid, CA - Oct 10, 2008
Latest album debuts on BitTorrent tracker sites well ahead of its official October 20th release date. BitTorrent savvy hard rock fans everywhere are surely ...
AC/DC Album Leaks, But Is Record Label Sending Out Fake Tracks? 411mania.com
AC/DC Album Leaks; Is Label Sending Out Fakes? - Oct. 9, 2008 Blabbermouth.net
Black Eyed Peas Album Nears 'The END' Billboard
FMQB - Fashion.ie
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SlashGear

Fallout 3 for Xbox 360 leaks to BitTorrent & Usenet
SlashGear, AZ - Oct 10, 2008
Much anticipated Xbox 360 game Fallout 3 has already appeared on BitTorrent and Usenet file sharing sites, three weeks in advance of its official release. ...

Fallout 3 leaked: On top BitTorrent sites, Usenet
CrunchGear, NY - Oct 10, 2008
By Nicholas Deleon Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360 has leaked onto the Internet, and it’s available on all the big BitTorrent sites, Usenet, etc. ...

TextBook Torrents Turns The Final Page and Closes Down
TorrentFreak - 8 hours ago
From relative obscurity, Textbook Torrents, the world’s largest BitTorrent index of textbooks, found itself in the world spotlight during July 2008 and was ...

Fallout 3 suffers early piracy blow - MCV

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Fallout 3 suffers early piracy blow
MCV, UK - 4 hours ago
The game, which isn’t due out in the UK until October 31st, has already appeared on a number of illegal BitTorrent sites, with one leading portal currently ...
Fallout 3 already pirated for the Xbox 360 bit-tech.net
Fallout 3 leaked online three weeks before release GamesIndustry.biz
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Court Deems Pirate Bay Block to be Illegal
TorrentFreak - 21 hours ago
The administrators of the popular BitTorrent tracker were accused of making copyrighted material available on the Internet for commercial purposes. ...

AceShowbiz

AC/DC Album Leaks, But Is Record Label Sending Out Fake Tracks?
411mania.com, TX - 19 hours ago
According to Undercover News, Sony Music is rumored to be putting false tracks on file-sharing and BitTorrent sites in order to throw off fans looking to ...
AC/DC Album Leaks; Is Label Sending Out Fakes? - Oct. 9, 2008 Blabbermouth.net
Black Eyed Peas Album Nears 'The END' Billboard
‘The END’ is Near for the Black Eyed Peas Rap-Up.com
AceShowbiz
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Rap-Up.com

AC/DC Album Leaks; Is Label Sending Out Fakes? - Oct. 9, 2008
Blabbermouth.net, NY - 30 minutes ago
Meanwhile, Undercover News reported on Wednesday (October 8) that the band's label, Sony Music, might be flooding file-sharing and BitTorrent sites with ...
Black Eyed Peas Album Nears 'The END' Billboard
‘The END’ is Near for the Black Eyed Peas Rap-Up.com
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Application Monitor Automatically Restarts A Crashed App
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 22 hours ago
Let's say, for example, your roommate is prone to shutting down your BitTorrent client when you're away from your computer. You return home expecting the ...

Modern Day Pirates: To Steal or Not To Steal?
Colonnade (subscription), GA - 3 hours ago
Limewire, Napster, Morpheus, KaZaa, BitTorrent. All of these are peer-to-peer programs that allow the files to be shared between two computers, ...

Blubster 3.0 Released - Slyck

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Blubster 3.0 Released
Slyck, NY - 3 hours ago
But in comparison to today's solid communities like BitTorrent, the newsgroups, and eDonkey2000, all we can do is shake our heads and remark how the mighty ...

BBC News

The rise and further fall of RealNetworks
CNNMoney.com - 19 hours ago
Olson says anybody interested in copying movies to their computer is probably already downloading them for free using file-sharing programs like BitTorrent. ...
RealDVD: Still in Limbo Technologizer
Judge Renews Decision Barring Sale of DVD-Copying Software Wired News
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Major Romanian ISP Blocks BitTorrent Site
TorrentFreak - Oct 8, 2008
Just over 12 months since one of Romania’s most popular BitTorrent trackers was raided by the police, Torrentbits.ro is suffering more problems. ...

AC/DC's upcoming album leaked online
Sync, Canada - Oct 8, 2008
Hundreds of websites, file-sharing programs and BitTorrent search engines have copies of AC/DC's latest album, Black Ice, available as a free download, ...

Battleground: World Wide Web
Royal Purple News, WI - 4 hours ago
Individuals that used "BitTorrent" applications, which by some measures composed over one third of total internet traffic, noticed either slow speeds or a ...

TorrentFreak

Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 7, 2008
TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading ...

RealDVD: Still in Limbo - Technologizer

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GameSHOUT

RealDVD: Still in Limbo
Technologizer, CA - 17 hours ago
The manner of copying it provides is fundamentally limited: You can’t put a movie onto an iPod or a home network, let alone release it to BitTorrent. ...
Judge Renews Decision Barring Sale of DVD-Copying Software Wired News
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Sydney Morning Herald

Bid to remove Moore film from download websites
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Oct 7, 2008
Moore chose the file sharing protocol BitTorrent, a popular tool for illegally sharing movies and music, to distribute Slacker Uprising. ...
Michael Moore Says 'Free' Film Not Free to Foreigners? NewsBusters
Michael Moore on Slacker Uprising’s Piracy ‘Problem’ TorrentFreak
Michael Moore Gets Cagey on Slacker Uprising Piracy Flap Wired News
Blogcritics.org - CrunchGear
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p2pnet.net

‘Super-awesome’ Bitsmash BitTorrent stats
p2pnet.net, Canada - Oct 7, 2008
Bitsmash is eventually going to provide an XML-API for BitTorrent statistics. Right now, this site (shown) is in a somewhat “beta”-status for testing and ...

Zatz Not Funny

SlingCatcher Now Shipping?
Zatz Not Funny, DC - 15 hours ago
(via Engadget) Did Comedy Central put all of Robot Chicken Season 3 on BitTorrent? Or are they just poking fun at the inevitable? about 32 minutes ago from ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Bid to remove Moore film from download websites
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 20 hours ago
Moore chose the file sharing protocol BitTorrent, a popular tool for illegally sharing movies and music, to distribute Slacker Uprising. ...

TorrentFreak

Michael Moore on Slacker Uprising’s Piracy ‘Problem’
TorrentFreak - 22 hours ago
However, since he chose to use BitTorrent, and open trackers such as The Pirate Bay, it was fairly easy for the rest of the world to download it as well. ...
Michael Moore Gets Cagey on Slacker Uprising Piracy Flap Wired News
Michael Moore doesn’t mind that his film Slacker Uprising is being ... CrunchGear
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VCD Quality Provides A Peek At A Movie's Quality Before You Download
Lifehacker Australia, Australia - 5 hours ago
You can't actually download anything directly from VCD Quality, but if you've followed our beginner and intermediate guides to BitTorrent, you already know ...

RE[2]: Comment by satan666 - OS News

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RE[2]: Comment by satan666
OS News - 18 hours ago
As far as I'm concerned the best bittorrent client out there is still Azureus and perl...what Linux distro doesn't depend on perl in one place or another. ...

Intermediate guide to BitTorrent
Lifehacker, CA - Oct 6, 2008
Last week's beginner's guide to BitTorrent got you all up to speed on what BitTorrent is and how you can use it to download and share large files. ...

Shareaza 2.4 Released - Zeropaid

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Shareaza 2.4 Released
Zeropaid, CA - 2 hours ago
Shareaza is a P2P file-sharing client which supports the Gnutella, Gnutella2, eDonkey Network, BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP network protocols and handles magnet ...

TorrentFreak

BitSmash Launches BitTorrent Statistics Tool
TorrentFreak - Oct 6, 2008
BitSmash is a new service that aims to provide statistics on all BitTorrent downloads. The site allows users to search from keywords, just like the average ...

BSA flashes gums at 'online software scams'
Register, UK - Oct 6, 2008
It also sent 471694 non-BitTorrent takedown notices to ISPs in the first half of 2007. By the same period this year 782832 takedown notices had been issued. ...
Beware of the pirates This Is Lancashire
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 6, 2008
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” tops the chart. We do not link to actual torrent files ...
Lucas Looking for Fifth Film for Indy Trilogy Wired News
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The Pirate Bay unblocked in Italy
CD Freaks.com, Netherlands - 4 hours ago
Not surprisingly, the ban was not effective, and The Pirate Bay saw an increase in traffic to the popular BitTorrent web site. The Court of Bergamo made it ...

Senators Question Secret Piracy Bill
BroadbandReports.com, NY - 20 hours ago
The ACTA takes aim at BitTorrent websites like the Pirate Bay, whistle-blowers, and even legit distribution systems like Tor. It's also believed that the ...

RealDVD is Really in Trouble. No, Really.
Technologizer, CA - 12 hours ago
... for consumers who want to get more out of media they’ve paid for, and it doesn’t let anyone put copies on BitTorrent or otherwise engage in mass piracy. ...

Blu-ray Iron Man too popular for its own good, caused BD-Live ...
CrunchGear, NY - Oct 4, 2008
... as it has shored up the relevant servers. Also, is the movie any good? I don’t want to waste precious BitTorrent ratio on a cruddy movie.
Casio EQW-500DBE-1AVER: A watch for Iron Man, but does Iron Man ... CrunchGear
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TorrentFreak

“Saw” Director Explains Why He Was Worried By BitTorrent
TorrentFreak - Oct 4, 2008
Now, Darren Bousman, director of Saw II, III and IV, talks to us about his decision to target BitTorrent, the fallout and his dreams, as 10 years of effort ...

Business Software Alliance makes anti-piracy push
CNET News, CA - Oct 3, 2008
The trade group served more than 48000 "takedown" notices related to BitTorrent files in the first half of this year and says BSA members lost an estimated ...

Comcast's Broadband Usage Cap Won't Hurt My Mom
PC Magazine - Oct 2, 2008
I also download music, videos, and podcasts from iTunes, grab old TV shows from BitTorrent, stream movies through Netflix, and I've recently started playing ...
GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps Bay Area Indymedia
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BitTorrent, Course Registration, and Textbooks: How the Higher ...
The Georgetown Voice, DC - Oct 2, 2008
Fleming said there has been talk about technically disabling the use of some filesharing programs (presumably aimed at BitTorrent). He also said, however, ...

"Slacker Uprising" Hits BitTorrent; Targeted for Takedown
Digital Media Wire, CA - Oct 2, 2008
... the film -- which Moore offered for free download to users in the US and Canada -- removed from a BitTorrent file-sharing hub, TorrentFreak reported. ...

Netgear Readynas DUO - PC World

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Netgear Readynas DUO
PC World - Oct 2, 2008
Strengths: Fast, Reliable, Built-in BitTorrent Client, Built-in Media Server, Built-in Print Server, Support of Direct Connection of USB Drives / Digital ...

“Saw” Director Recruits ‘Army’ to Post Fake Torrents
TorrentFreak - 7 hours ago
Darren Bousman, director of Saw II, III, IV, and no stranger to scenes of slaughter, has been caught up in his very own BitTorrent bloodbath. ...

EA DRM can't accomplish job one: 500K Spore torrents so far
Ars Technica, MA - 3 hours ago
"Since September 2nd when Spore first appeared on BitTorrent, it has been downloaded a little over 500000 times across various BitTorrent sites according to ...

BitTorrent and eDonkey2000 Represent nearly all P2P Traffic
Slyck, NY - Oct 2, 2008
If BitTorrent and eDonkey2000 were suddenly wiped off the face of the Earth, very little of file-sharing would remain – at least according to the latest P2P ...

Canadian Challenge: Canadian Election Debate, or American Vice ...
Red, Green, and Blue, CA - 1 hour ago
Canadian political junkies are all busy programming their VCRs, Tivos, or getting all set up to Bittorrent tonight. Thanks to the vagaries of the ...

FCC Taps University Professor, Former AT&T, Microsoft Executive ...
TMCnet - Oct 2, 2008
That’s according to a study from Germany-based Max Planck Institute for Software Systems that used more than 8000 nodes worldwide to test for BitTorrent ...
House Committee Asks FCC To Investigate Reassignment of PEG Channels Multichannel News
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TorrentFreak

Slacker Uprising BitTorrent Takedown Sent to DNS Provider
TorrentFreak - Oct 2, 2008
As we reported earlier, the decision to use BitTorrent for facilitating distribution of the movie made a bit of a mockery of the limitations of Moore’s ...

EA doesn’t think BitTorrent downloads of Spore mean lost sales
CrunchGear, NY - Oct 2, 2008
By Nicholas Deleon Plenty of people have downloaded Spore using BitTorrent, but EA doesn’t seem too concerned. Because on Earth 2, where EA is apparently ...

Adobe CS4 storms BitTorrent sites
ZDNet UK, UK - Oct 2, 2008
Little more than a week after its global launch, Adobe's Creative Suite 4 has shown up on popular BitTorrent tracking sites in large numbers. ...
Adobe takes CS4 on the road Pocket-lint.co.uk
Creative Suite 4 Tour 2008 PhotographyBLOG
Adobe reaches for UK creative pros Macworld UK
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Rumour: Spotify raises €15m round for Bittorrent-meets-Last.fm service
TechCrunch, CA - Oct 2, 2008
... Spotify can essentially be summed up, in the words of one blogger, as a kind of hybrid of Skype, last.fm, the iTunes Store and Bittorrent. ...

Adobe CS4 hits BitTorrent - ZDNet.com.au

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Adobe CS4 hits BitTorrent
ZDNet.com.au, Australia - 7 hours ago
Little more than a week after its global launch, Adobe's Creative Suite 4 has shown up on popular BitTorrent tracking sites in large numbers. ...

For Movie Purists, Sharp Images From the Vudu Box
New York Times, United States - 1 hour ago
This is not how you win over movie lovers’ hearts, especially when free, unencumbered alternatives like BitTorrent are one click away. ...

TorrentFreak

EA Downplays Spore’s DRM Triggered Piracy Record
TorrentFreak - 15 hours ago
According to our most recent statistics, it would be fair estimation to say that probably close to 1 million copies have been downloaded on BitTorrent now. ...
What hath Spore spawned? Salon
all 2 news articles

Italian Court Rules ISP Block of The Pirate Bay Illegal
Zeropaid, CA - 17 hours ago
It came on the heels of the closure of Colombo-BT.org, the apparent largest BitTorrent tracker site in Italy, by Guardia di Finanza in cooperation with FPM, ...

The Spore Piracy Debate
Inside Mac Games, TN - 6 hours ago
At the same time, TorrentFreak, a weblog dedicated to aggregating news for the BitTorrent P2P protocol, is claiming that Spore has been downloaded 500000 ...

Fedora 10's only beta release arrives
Heise Online, Germany - Oct 1, 2008
... the first and only beta version of Fedora 10 (Cambridge) for x86-32, x86-64 and PPC systems to download from mirrors and from the Bittorrent Tracker. ...

Buffalo Adds to its LinkStation Live Portfolio
ChannelTimes.com (press release), India - Oct 1, 2008
The product is designed for home networking to share documents, pictures, movie and music over a network with built-in BitTorrent Client. ...

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