Archivos November 2009


isoHunt Files Claim Against CRIA with BC Supreme Court
Zeropaid
Canada-based BitTorrent tracker search engine files petition with the Supreme Court of British Columbia seeking its declaration that it's “operation of the ...
IsoHunt Opts For Trial To Establish Legal StatusBillboard Business News

all 2 news articles »

TrustedReviews

Lessons The Next Big Torrent Sites Will Learn From Mininova
TorrentFreak (blog)
When Mininova announced last week that they would comply with a tough court order, many BitTorrent users feared that this signaled the end of big public ...
Mininova buries pirate booty in its index, aims to go legitArs Technica
Mininova deletes all infringing torrents from databaseComic Book Resources
Rough Week for the bittorrent Community - scenetorrents ClosesSlyck
Zeropaid -Media 3.0 -NewTeeVee (blog)
all 84 news articles »

TrustedReviews

Mininova deletes all infringing torrents from database
Comic Book Resources
Amid the hustle and bustle of the US holiday came word last week that BitTorrent-index site Mininova has purged all user-contributed torrents in an attempt ...
BitTorrent Site Mininova Cuts ServiceBillboard Business News
Mininova Gutted — and Another Chance to Monetize BitTorrent BlownNewTeeVee (blog)
Another One Bites The Dust: BitTorrent Giant Mininova Forced To Go LegalpaidContent.org
Lifehacker -Media 3.0 -Boston Globe
all 96 news articles »

TrustedReviews

EU Winning The War On Piracy: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 30, 2009
Media 3.0
BitTorrent giant Mininova has been forced to go legal. In doing so, the bit torrent tracker has removed all links to copyrighted material. ...
5 Alternatives to MininovaZeropaid
Mininova Gutted — and Another Chance to Monetize BitTorrent BlownNewTeeVee (blog)
BitTorrent Site Mininova Cuts ServiceBillboard Business News
paidContent.org -Lifehacker -Register
all 74 news articles »

IsoHunt Opts For Trial To Establish Legal Status
Billboard Business News
Canadian BitTorrent site isoHunt is taking legal action against the Canadian Recording Industry Association and its major label ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on bittorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
The top 10 most downloaded movies on bittorrent, 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' tops the chart this week followed by 'Funny People'. '2012′ completes the top ...

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5 Alternatives to Mininova - Zeropaid


TrustedReviews

5 Alternatives to Mininova
Zeropaid
List of other available BitTorrent tracker sites to use now that Mininova has decided to remove torrents that link to copyrighted material in order to ...
Mininova Gutted — and Another Chance to Monetize BitTorrent BlownNewTeeVee (blog)
BitTorrent Site Mininova Cuts ServiceBillboard Business News
Another One Bites The Dust: BitTorrent Giant Mininova Forced To Go LegalpaidContent.org
Lifehacker -Register -Boston Globe
all 74 news articles »

Rough Week for the bittorrent Community - scenetorrents Closes
Slyck
Two of the 3 major bittorrent websites, The Pirate Bay and Mininova, have fundamentally changed the way they do business in the last two weeks. ...


Never Back Down – Pirate Bay Adapts To Stay Alive
TorrentFreak (blog)
No other site in BitTorrent history has ever weathered so many storms, so many obstacles and so many setbacks, but still prevailed. ...


Prudent Press Agency (press release)

Computers and Software : Digital Media Player - The Ultimate Torrenttvdevice ...
Prudent Press Agency (press release)
You need to open the( .torrent) file in a bittorrent client such as µtorrent , BitTornado or Azureus and many others . The client will then download the ...


Anti-Piracy Outfits Demand Cash Without Proof
TorrentFreak (blog)
This link can be posted everywhere on the Internet and it wouldn't even require the recipient to have a BitTorrent client installed. ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

scenetorrents bittorrent Tracker Shuts Down
TorrentFreak (blog)
In a week where bittorrent already lost its largest torrent indexer Mininova, a well known private tracker has also announced that it will cease its ...


BBC News

Mininova Gutted — and Another Chance to Monetize BitTorrent Blown
NewTeeVee (blog)
In fact, The Pirate Bay and Mininova were in many ways a sort of duopoly ruling the BitTorrent world. The Pirate Bay's tracker servers made it possible to ...
BitTorrent Site Mininova Cuts ServiceBillboard Business News
BitTorrent Tracker Mininova Goes Legal-OnlyLifehacker
Another One Bites The Dust: BitTorrent Giant Mininova Forced To Go LegalpaidContent.org
Boston Globe -Australian Personal Computer -StrategyEye (subscription)
all 63 news articles »

Group hopes to create hackerspace for St. Louis techies
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A passing joke about the file-sharing service BitTorrent gets hearty laughs. "The thing about St. Louis' tech community is that there are a lot of us, ...


Best of the Best: Tech Blog Roundup
NewsFactor Network
You can grab the latest version from FreeBSD from the mirrors (main ftp server) or via BitTorrent. Please consider making a donation and help us to spread ...

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isohunt Asks Court to Legalize Its Operations
TorrentFreak (blog)
For more than a year, bittorrent search engine isohunt has chased the Canadian music industry in court. In an act of self-defense, the founder of the site ...


TrustedReviews

BitTorrent Tracker MiniNova Goes Legal-Only
Lifehacker
MiniNova, one of the web's go-to aggregators for BitTorrent trackers, has deleted nearly every torrent on its site in response to a court order. ...
BitTorrent Site Mininova Cuts ServiceBillboard Business News
Another One Bites The Dust: BitTorrent Giant Mininova Forced To Go LegalpaidContent.org
BitTorrent site Mininova forced to drop illegal contentComputer Shopper
Register -Inquirer
all 45 news articles »

TrustedReviews

BitTorrent Site Mininova Cuts Service
Billboard Business News
Responding to the news, Tim Kuik, director of Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, said in a statement: "We applaud the fact that Mininova now uses the BitTorrent ...
Another One Bites The Dust: BitTorrent Giant Mininova Forced To Go LegalpaidContent.org
'World's largest' bittorrent tracker Mininova kneecappedRegister
Dutch court guts MininovaInquirer
Pocket-lint.com -Softpedia
all 39 news articles »

Download LimeWire 5.4.2 for Mac OS X - Softpedia


Download LimeWire 5.4.2 for Mac OS X
Softpedia
LimeWire uses the BitTorrent protocol and the Gnutella network to provide an unparalleled searches and download speed to the user,” Lime Wire LLC explains. ...


20 classic Apple App Store rejections
TechRadar UK
As everyone knows, BitTorrent is the most evil thing, ever. Or so Apple must have decided when it rejected Drivetrain, even though the app's merely a remote ...


BBC News

Another One Bites The Dust: BitTorrent Giant Mininova Forced To Go Legal
paidContent.org
It calls itself “the ultimate BitTorrent source”, but P2P tracker Mininova has now removed almost all links to copyrighted content after complying with a ...
'World's largest' bittorrent tracker Mininova kneecappedRegister
Dutch court guts MininovaInquirer
Mininova Removes All Infringing Torrents Will go 'legit' for the time beingSoftpedia
Pocket-lint.com -Zeropaid
all 32 news articles »

The Next Web

GCHQ supplier outlines why Mandy's anti-piracy plans won't work
TechRadar UK
... to cut off persistent offenders from their internets and, more recently, bittorrent site Mininova removing all copyrighted material links from its site. ...
Virgin Media to monitor traffic for file-sharingZDNet UK

all 28 news articles »

Mininova Removes All Infringing Torrents Will go 'legit' for the time being
Softpedia
By Lucian Parfeni, Web News Editor The largest BitTorrent indexer in the world, Mininova, decided to remove all torrents from the sites, except for those ...

FreeBSD 8.0 Released - Slashdot


FreeBSD 8.0 Released
Slashdot
You can grab the latest version from FreeBSD from the mirrors (main ftp server) or via BitTorrent. Please consider making a donation and help us to spread ...
FreeBSD 8.0 ReleasedOS News

all 2 news articles »

Torrent Site Tracker - p2pnet.net


Torrent Site Tracker
p2pnet.net
This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who were confronted with confusing new terminology and technology. Time for some explaining. ...

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MiniNova Introduces Server Content Distribution
Zeropaid
Bit Torrent is supposed to take the load off of the server the more popular a file is so it shouldn't hurt them if they manage it right. ...


Virgin Media to monitor traffic for file-sharing
ZDNet UK
The data packet is then scanned to see if it follows one of the three main file-sharing protocols — BitTorrent, Gnutella and eDonkey — said Klein. ...

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How to beat piracy: give away Spotify Premium
TechRadar UK
You need to get to grips with bittorrent and in some cases muck around with ports; you run the risk of faked, incomplete or poor quality files; ...


The Next Web

Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes 'Legal'
TorrentFreak (blog)
In December 2004, the demise of the mighty Suprnova left a meteor crater in the fledgling bittorrent landscape. This gaping hole was soon filled by the ...
End of Torrents as We Know Them…? Mininova Goes Legal.The Next Web

all 2 news articles »

Would you trust a Pirate Bay co-founder with your credit card number?
Econsultancy (blog)
Peter Sunde is best known as one of the founders of The Pirate Bay (TPB), the now-deceased BitTorrent index. In April of this year, Sunde and his fellow TBP ...
Pirate Bay co-founder now part of digital receipt start-upCrunchGear (blog)
Peter Sunde now into digital receipts with KvittarGeek.com
Torrent Site Trackerp2pnet.net

all 4 news articles »

AFACT v iiNet: Epic BitTorrent Copyright Case Concludes
TorrentFreak (blog)
Bannon went on to say that while iiNet denied it had any control over BitTorrent clients and the potential for users to operate them for infringing purposes ...
iinet vs AFACT: Internet Industry Association denied entryARNnet
Day 22: Film studios target iinet business model changeiT News
AFACT v iiNet: Judge denies Internet Industry Association application to be ...Computerworld Australia
The Australian -iT News
all 7 news articles »

iiNet vs AFACT: Internet Industry Association denied entry
ARNnet
“If [a user] is not online… there is nothing the BitTorrent software can do to cause [him or her] to be infringing online.” AFACT is representing a host of ...
IIA snubbed in iiNet caseThe Australian
Day 22: Film studios issue ultimatum to ISPsiT News

all 2 news articles »

Day 22: Film studios target iinet business model change
iT News
They included that iinet did not have control over the bittorrent client - meaning, it had no power to prevent the infringing activities for which the ...
IIA snubbed in iiNet caseThe Australian

all 2 news articles »

TrustedReviews

Opera includes Unite feature with 10.10 browser release
Gizmag
Browser information synchronization, email and feed integration, mouse gesture navigation control, a BitTorrent download manager, web developer tools, ...
Opera 10.10 now available, brings a bunch of new featuresGeek.com
Opera 10.10: Web Browser and Web Server In OneMashable (blog)
New: Breaking news and daily top stories via emailLifehacker

all 47 news articles »

Zeropaid

FOX FILMS: We Should Disconnect File-Sharers Like France
Zeropaid
Jamin and Kiowa of Double Edge Films saw their movie Ink recently uploaded to several BitTorrent tracker sites and were subsequently amazed with the ...

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Zeropaid

Norwegian Royalty Group: You Can't Upload Own Music to Pirate Bay
Zeropaid
The band krã¥kesã¸lv tried to make its debut album “trã¥BitTorrent¸sting” available for free on bittorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay only to find out that ...

Magnet links - Lifehacker


Magnet links
Lifehacker
It is worth noting that BitTorrent can not ditch the .torrent format entirely and rely solely on Magnet links. The .torrent files hold crucial information ...

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TorrentFreak (blog)

Vuze bittorrent Client Boosts kickasstorrents' Visitors
TorrentFreak (blog)
Already making a name for itself by offering new and innovative features, kickasstorrents is a relatively new bittorrent site that launched just a few ...


Swedish Music Sales Surge After Pirate Bay Case
Billboard Business News
The labels scored a victory in a Stockholm court in April, when four co-founders of the file-sharing BitTorrent tracker were found guilty of facilitating ...
Swedish Music Biz Claims Piracy Victory As Digital Music Sales Increase 80 PercentpaidContent.org

all 14 news articles »

TrustedReviews

Opera 10.10 now available, brings a bunch of new features
Geek.com
A download manager now features pause and resume buttons and a built-in support for the BitTorrent protocol, enabling you to download torrent files without ...
Opera 10.10: Web Browser and Web Server In OneMashable (blog)
New: Breaking news and daily top stories via emailLifehacker

all 43 news articles »

CrunchGear (blog)

MS unleashes legal attack dogs to lick up COFEE spill
Register
We have confirmed that unauthorised and modified versions of Microsoft's COFEE tool have been improperly posted to bit torrent networks for public download. ...
Take-down notices going after Microsoft CofeeCrunchGear (blog)
Microsoft kills COFEE downloadInquirer

all 4 news articles »

SlashGear

Chrome OS packaged for virtual run-throughs
eWeek
While multiple Chrome vmdks of unknown provenance appear to be available on bittorrent, one is also readily available from the gdgt website. ...
Hands On with Google Chrome OSPC Magazine
Google Chrome OS build is available for free download onlineEcommerce Journal

all 204 news articles »

Free (and Some Not Free) Live Music - PC World


Free (and Some Not Free) Live Music
PC World
You can now find lossless FLAC audio files from a show available legally via BitTorrent-often less than 24 hours after a show takes place. ...

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Free (and some not free) live music - Macworld


Macworld

Free (and some not free) live music
Macworld
You can now find lossless FLAC audio files from a show available legally via bittorrent—often less than 24 hours after a show takes place. ...


CameraTown.Com (press release)

Opera 10.10: Web Browser and Web Server In One
Mashable (blog)
... which lets you synchronize data across several computers, a slick new look with a resizable tab bar, and a BitTorrent-enabled download manager. ...
New: Breaking news and daily top stories via emailLifehacker

all 34 news articles »

Zeropaid

Lily Allen: Sell Bootlegs of My cds, Don't Share for Free
Zeropaid
What's also interesting to note is that she seems to be taking advantage of P2P herself, using bittorrent to distribute free copies of her Lily Allen: ...

Hands On with Google Chrome OS - PC Magazine


Hands On with Google Chrome OS
PC Magazine
I downloaded a compiled build using bittorrent and got Chrome OS running in Sun's virtualbox. Note that the virtual machine version of the OS is different ...

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New: Breaking news and daily top stories via email
Lifehacker
A few other features, like built-in BitTorrent, make Opera 10.10 worth a look. Unite is an intriguing step forward for Opera, bringing an entirely new ...

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TorrentFreak (blog)

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, '2012′ tops the chart this week followed by 'Gamer'. 'Funny People' completes the top three. ...


CrunchGear (blog)

Take-down notices going after Microsoft Cofee
CrunchGear (blog)
The leak came from a popular BitTorrent site, and then spread to The Pirate Bay and all over the Internet. Needless to say, it's “out there. ...
Microsoft kills COFEE downloadInquirer

all 2 news articles »

Files24, the IMDB-Styled bittorrent Tracker Site
Zeropaid
I recently stumbled across a bittorrent tracker site that adds a bit of flair to the staid old system used by most others. Files24 lists the IMBD rating ...


Opera 10.10 with Unite Media Server Released
Lifehacker
A few other features, like built-in BitTorrent, make Opera 10.10 worth a look. Unite is an intriguing step forward for Opera, bringing an entirely new ...

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Artuji

Google Chrome OS available on bittorrent
PC Advisor
The ready-to-run Chrome OS has appeared on several peer-to-peer bittorrent tracking sites, including Mininova.org and Pirate Bay. The Gdgt website has also ...
Hands On with Google Chrome OSPC Magazine
Chrome OS packaged for virtual run-throughseWeek
Google Chrome OS build is available for free download onlineEcommerce Journal

all 232 news articles »

New Tool for Creating Online Coupons Launched by Blackstripe Design
Earthtimes (press release)
... user interface, and graphic design services for large corporations, including BitTorrent and Hewlett Packard, and is now expanding its services into the ...

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TorrentFreak (blog)

Novell Strips bittorrent DHT Technology from opensuse
TorrentFreak (blog)
The Pirate Bay's tracker closure has spurred several discussions about DHT, bittorrent's fallback technology for when central trackers are unavailable. ...


CNET News

Google Chrome OS out now
International Business Times
The working Chrome OS has already appeared on several peer-to-peer BitTorrent tracking sites, including Mininova.org and Pirate Bay. ...
Google's Chrome OS gets official launchbit-tech.net

all 1,206 news articles »

Why the Music Industry is Going to Die
Motley Fool
Some of these programs you may of heard of, programs and websites like Bearshare, Ares, Frostwire, Limewire, Bittorrent, Pirate Bay, Isohunt, and others are ...


bittorrent's Future? DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained
TorrentFreak (blog)
This move confounded many bittorrent enthusiasts, who although wishing to adapt, were confronted with hard to grasp terminology and technology. ...

Chrome OS Lands on BitTorrent Sites - PC Magazine


CNET News

Chrome OS Lands on BitTorrent Sites
PC Magazine
A quick search of BitTorrent tracking sites, including The Pirate Bay and Mininova, returned hits for Chrome OS, or at least the open-source Chromium OS ...
Google's Chrome OS hits BitTorrentComputerworld
Google Chrome OS available now at a bittorrent near youInternational Business Times
Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here's How.TechCrunch (blog)
bit-tech.net
all 1,021 news articles »

Slipping Into The Peer-to-Peer Channel: Where Trends Begin
Mediapost.com
Despite worries about content piracy, P2P technologies like Bittorrent and Gnutella have become enormously powerful channels for content swapping among the ...

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If You Only Share A Tiny Bit Of A File Via bittorrent, Is It Still Copyright ...
Techdirt
That's because of the way bittorrent works, in breaking up any file into tiny components and sharing the individual pieces. A key element of copyright law ...


Telegraph.co.uk

Google's Chrome OS hits BitTorrent
Computerworld
The ready-to-run Chrome OS has appeared on several peer-to-peer BitTorrent tracking sites, including Mininova.org and Pirate Bay. The Gdgt Web site has also ...
Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here's How.TechCrunch (blog)
Google's Chrome OS gets official launchbit-tech.net

all 1,003 news articles »

Ghacks Technology News

TorrentFetcher Searches for Torrents from Your Desktop
Lifehacker
... but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of your choice. ...
Desktop Torrents Search Engine Torrent FetcherGhacks Technology News

all 3 news articles »

Ghacks Technology News

Desktop Torrents Search Engine Torrent Fetcher
Ghacks Technology News
Torrent Fetcher comes with a comfortable interface to perform the search for Bittorrent files from the local computer system without firing up a web browser ...


Telegraph.co.uk

Google's Chrome OS gets official launch
bit-tech.net
... for the Chromium OS - Chrome os's open-source moniker - and posted the result as a vmware disk image to popular bittorrent search site The Pirate Bay. ...
Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here's How.TechCrunch (blog)

all 762 news articles »

TechCrunch (blog)

Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here's How.
TechCrunch (blog)
First, a few caveats: we didn't create the Chrome OS build ourselves — it was downloaded from BitTorrent. In theory it could possibly have been tweaked by ...

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TrustedReviews

Google Chrome OS Pops Up on Bittorrent, Compiled and Ready
Gizmodo.com
Wow, that was fast. Google Chrome OS was only unveiled today, and it's already compiled as a VMWare image, ready for downloading on our preferred Swedish ...
Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here's How.TechCrunch (blog)
New: Breaking news and daily top stories via emailLifehacker

all 684 news articles »

New: Breaking news and daily top stories via email
Lifehacker
This virtual machine-friendly build looks like a good way to do just that, and you can grab it via bittorrent now. From The Pirate Bay page: This is a ...


Legit Reviews

BitTorrent After The Pirate Bay: Do You Still Need Trackers?
NewTeeVee (blog)
The Pirate Bay made headlines earlier this week with yet another dramatic announcement, this time that the notorious BitTorrent site's tracker has been ...
Pirate Bay Retires World's Largest BitTorrent TrackerWired News
Hollywood group claims The Pirate Bay tracker still livesComic Book Resources
Studios Sue Swedish ISP, Demand Closure of OpenBitTorrentDigital Media Wire
Ars Technica -PC Magazine -TorrentFreak (blog)
all 59 news articles »

Scientific American

Congress Cracks Down on (Its Own) File-Sharing
Wall Street Journal
... of peer-to-peer networks for sharing files has come under fire during recent months, including the dismantling of Swedish BitTorrent site Pirate Bay, ...
Bill Would Ban P2P Use By Federal EmployeesInformationWeek

all 40 news articles »

YouTube now streaming full-length TV shows such as Peep Show and IT Crowd
T3
In a quest to save us from trawling BitTorrent, YouTube is now streaming full-length TV shows for free to anyone interested in shows such as IT Crowd, ...

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AFACT v iiNet: Tiny Bits of BitTorrent Transfers Aren't Illegal
TorrentFreak (blog)
iiNet's chief barrister argued today that there is insufficient evidence to show that when customers shared movies using BitTorrent, they shared ...
iiNet turns spotlight back on AFACT investigatorsARNnet
Day 20: iiNet can't vet AFACT copyright allegationsiT News
AFACT v iinet: ISP draws on TV copyright battleComputerworld Australia
iTWire -CRN Australia -iT News
all 8 news articles »

iiNet turns spotlight back on AFACT investigators
ARNnet
... the investigators] showed, it slowed the download times [to several days]… and that is not something ordinary BitTorrent users [would do],” Cobden said. ...
AFACT v iinet: ISP draws on TV copyright battleComputerworld Australia
Day 20: AFACT snoops “arguably” committed crimes in iiNet probeiT News
Day 20: iiNet refuses to play police for film industryCRN Australia

all 4 news articles »

Studios Sue Swedish ISP, Demand Closure of OpenBitTorrent
Digital Media Wire
Los Angeles - Several Hollywood movie studios have filed suit against a Swedish ISP that is hosting OpenBitTorrent, an independent BitTorrent file-sharing ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Mininova Breaks 10 Billion Torrent Downloads
TorrentFreak (blog)
Despite negative court verdicts against the two leading torrent sites, the BitTorrent popularity surge is still underway judging from ever increasing ...


Hulu gets into the music video biz -- one artist at a time
Downloadsquad (blog)
Sure, it's only available in the US, and it doesn't have nearly as many TV episodes or movies as you can find from your friendly neighborhod BitTorrent ...

and more »

Bill Would Ban P2P Use By Federal Employees
InformationWeek
Proposed legislation would prohibit use of P2P software like BitTorrent or Limewire on government computers and set policies for employees and contractors. ...

and more »

The Pirate Bay Logo Gets Trademarked by a Private Company
Softpedia
By Lucian Parfeni, Web News Editor The Pirate Bay may not be the world's largest BitTorrent site, but it's definitely the best known. ...
Swedish Retailer Lets Go of Pirate Bay LogoWired News
Iconic Pirate Bay Ship Logo Hijacked By Private CompanyTorrentFreak (blog)

all 13 news articles »

Coolest Gadget Reviews

Hollywood Takes OpenBitTorrent's ISP to Court
TorrentFreak (blog)
The Swedish hosting provider Portlane is being sued by several Hollywood movie studios for hosting the standalone BitTorrent tracker, OpenBitTorrent. ...
Pirate Bay Retires World's Largest BitTorrent TrackerWired News
Pirate Bay moves to decentralized DHT protocol, kills trackerArs Technica
Pirate Bay Drops Tracker, 'Decentralizes'Billboard Business News
PC Magazine -CrunchGear (blog) -GigaOm (blog)
all 50 news articles »

MyPorts Gives You Detailed Information on Open Ports
Lifehacker
If you have an especially slow BitTorrent connection, for example, you can always check what port you're using and look to see if it comes up in MyPorts (if ...

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myports Gives You Deailed Information on Open Ports
Lifehacker
If you have an especially slow bittorrent connection, for example, you can always check what port you're using and look to see if it comes up in myports (if ...

and more »

Pirate Bay Retires the World s Largest BitTorrent Tracker
SecuObs
Présentation : Operators of the The Pirate Bay shuttered the site s BitTorrent tracker on Tuesday, six years after it was founded. Trackers the servers that ...


Trackon, The bittorrent Tracker Tracker
TorrentFreak (blog)
To help keep track of the status of public trackers, there's now Trackon, the bittorrent Tracker Tracker. Public torrent have their critics, ...

OpenSUSE Education announces Li-f-e 11.2 - ZDNet


Corporate IT

OpenSUSE Education announces Li-f-e 11.2
ZDNet
However, the latest features announced today with this release of OpenSUSE's educational distribution have me downloading as fast as my BitTorrent client ...
openSUSE 11.2 Edu Li-fe releasedThe H
What's New in opensuse 11.2Linux Magazine (registration) (blog)
opensuse 11.2 breaks coverCorporate IT

all 4 news articles »

TorrentFreak (blog)

Pirate Bay kills its own BitTorrent tracker
Ars Technica
The Pirate Bay announced today that it was killing its popular BitTorrent tracker, relying instead on the truly decentralized DHT protocol to handle file ...
Pirate Bay Shutters TrackerWired News
Pirate Bay Shutting Down; Are Torrents Dead?PC Magazine
The Pirate Bay Trackers Go Offline ForeverSlyck
Lifehacker -Slashdot -Register
all 24 news articles »

Coolest Gadget Reviews

Pirate Bay Retires World's Largest BitTorrent Tracker
Wired News
Operators of The Pirate Bay shuttered the site's BitTorrent tracker on Tuesday, six years after it was founded. Trackers — the servers that ...
Pirate Bay moves to decentralized DHT protocol, kills trackerArs Technica
Trackon, The bittorrent Tracker TrackerTorrentFreak (blog)
Pirate Bay Shutting Down; Are Torrents Dead?PC Magazine
CrunchGear (blog) -GigaOm (blog) -Slyck
all 37 news articles »

The Local

Pirate Bay Shutting Down; Are Torrents Dead?
PC Magazine
The BitTorrent tracker has been at the epicenter of a copyright battle in a manner the world hasn't seen since the heyday of Napster, a fight that lead to ...
The Pirate Bay Tracker Officially Shutting Down for GoodLifehacker
End of an Era: Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts DownMashable (blog)
Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches to Distributed Hash TableSlashdot
Register -Zeropaid -Downloadsquad (blog)
all 17 news articles »

The Local

Pirate Bay says tracker tech is so yesterday, man
Register
Magnet links allow users to download a torrent directly into their BitTorrent client, instead of through a browser. The likes of uTorrent, Vuze and rtorrent ...
The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for GoodTorrentFreak (blog)
End of an Era: Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts DownMashable (blog)
Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches to Distributed Hash TableSlashdot
Zeropaid -The Local
all 9 news articles »

Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches to Distributed Hash Table
Slashdot
think_nix writes "The Pirate Bay has shut down their BitTorrent tracker. Instead TPB is now using Distributed Hash Table to distribute the torrents. ...


Ars Technica

When do net neutrality "anecdotes" become "data"?
Ars Technica
The first would (famously) be FCC sanctions in August of 2008 against Comcast for slowing down BitTorrent file sharing. The second was the 2005 Madison ...

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TorrentFreak (blog)

End of an Era: Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down
Mashable (blog)
Do you know how BitTorrent works? I mean, really know the technology behind it? Even if you're not all too familiar with it, you probably know that it ...
The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for GoodTorrentFreak (blog)
Former Pirate Bay ISP Appeals Bandwidth Shutoff OrderZeropaid
Pirate Bay shuts down its trackerThe Local

all 3 news articles »

SlashGear

Addonics NAS25HDU2 NAS caddy: plenty of promise, a few annoying flaws
SlashGear
... a hard-drive caddy that makes any HDD network-accessible, as well as offering printer sharing and standalone BitTorrent downloads has to be good, right? ...


Zeropaid

Former Pirate Bay ISP Appeals Bandwidth Shutoff Order
Zeropaid
Given chance to appear before the Swedish Court of Appeal and argue against order requiring it to cut off bandwidth to Swedish bittorrent tracker site after ...


Nasty Old People, Give It Away And Pray And Releasing Movies For File Sharing
Techdirt
We were just talking about some indie filmmakers who were happy with the extra attention they've been getting from having their movie "leaked" on BitTorrent ...


The etiquette of embracing mojo
North by Northwestern
The university comes down hard and fast on BitTorrent users, so I really don't have any other choice but to get creative. Thanks to Mojo, I won't have to ...

and more »

TorrentFreak (blog)

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on bittorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
The top 10 most downloaded movies on bittorrent, 'Funny People' tops the chart this week followed by 'The Hangover'. '2012′ completes the top three. ...


Zeropaid

Demonoid Admin Steps Aside, Says Demonoid Will Be 'Resurrected'
Zeropaid
Deimos leaves the BitTorrent tracker site to address “real-world” issues and says we will hear about the site's future very soon. ...
Demonoid Not Dead, “Will Return as Soon as Possible”Zeropaid

all 2 news articles »

Zeropaid

Demonoid Not Dead, “Will Return as Soon as Possible”
Zeropaid
It's been a little over two months now that BitTorrent tracker site Demonoid went offline after suffering from hardware issues that resulted in some ...


httpTorrents offers direct downloads of popular torrents
Downloadsquad (blog)
If you don't know or don't like BitTorrent, you might still be able to find the downloads you want using regular old HTTP. The site that's making this ...
Torrents over HTTPMyADSL

all 2 news articles »

DiamondDisc: Stone DVDs Will Last 1000 Years
Wired News
... can render an entire movie unwatchable (more than once I have rented a DVD and been forced to BitTorrent that same movie just to watch it that night). ...

and more »

Torrents over HTTP - MyADSL


Torrents over HTTP
MyADSL
According to TorrentFreak, the Kickass torrent tracker has partnered with httpTorrents to directly deliver files without the need for a BitTorrent client. ...


Iconic Pirate Bay Ship Logo Hijacked By Private Company
TorrentFreak (blog)
However, despite the shunning of the multi-colored approach of the above, among those millions of Internet users for whom BitTorrent has become a way of ...


Second Windows 7 activation hack appears
Geek.com
Windows 7 has been available on Bittorrent sites pretty much from the get go. Most of the torrent ISOS available right now are already cracked, ...

and more »

Mysterious forensics software designed by Microsoft for law officers hits ...
Geek.com
And it's all over Bittorrent web sites right now. With COFEE, law enforcement agencies without on-the-scene computer forensics capabilities can now more ...


The Next Web

Office 2010 Beta 2 leaks onto BitTorrent
Australian Personal Computer
Microsoft will release the public beta of its next-gen Office suite on Wednesday but it's already landed on popular BitTorrent file sharing sites. ...
Office 2010 Public Beta Leaked to bittorrentHard OCP
Office 2010 Beta Hits BitTorrent One Week Before DebutLifehacker
Office 2010 public beta leaks to InternetComputerworld
Register -Softpedia
all 50 news articles »

Verizon Starts Passing On RIAA Infringement Letters To Users
Techdirt
The bittorrent traffic is all on their server, and the user has file access to their account. by Anonymous Coward i'm an insight customer, recently caught ...

and more »

Techie Buzz

Office 2010 Public Beta Leaked to BitTorrent
Hard OCP
As can be expected, the public beta for Microsoft Office 2010 has been leaked to the web via BitTorrent a week before its expected unveiling. ...
Office 2010 Beta Hits BitTorrent One Week Before DebutLifehacker
Office 2010 public beta leaks to InternetComputerworld
Office 2010 beta sneaks onto wild wild webRegister
Softpedia
all 47 news articles »

The Price of Free - New York Times


Contactmusic.com

The Price of Free
New York Times
In 2007, Comcast was caught throttling back its customers' links to bittorrent, a file-sharing network often used to trade bootleg copies of TV shows and ...
Free Press Launches Online Campaign To Block Comcast/NBCUBroadcast Newsroom

all 123 news articles »

What Will Fans Pay For? - All About Jazz


What Will Fans Pay For?
All About Jazz
This might be because it's easier to use itunes than bittorrent. Or it might be because they want to support the artist. Or both. Atoms, not bits. ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Warner Bros. Thinks P2P Gets Unfairly Vilified
TorrentFreak (blog)
At a recent roundtable discussion, Warner Bros. technology director Ethan Applen commented on BitTorrent and P2P's bad reputation in the entertainment ...


Erictric

Office 2010 Beta Hits BitTorrent One Week Before Debut
Lifehacker
Like the Office 2010 Technical Preview, the Office 2010 Beta build, dubbed a "Beta 2" in some circles, has been spotted in the BitTorrent wilds, among other ...
Office 2010 beta sneaks onto wild wild webRegister
Office 2010 Beta Shipped to Testers, Build 14.0.4514.1009 Already LeakedSoftpedia

all 36 news articles »

Will Netflix Jump The Shark?
Zatz Not Funny (blog)
So, ignoring bittorrent for the moment, how would the rest of us handle a Netflix Hollywood sellout? Of course, Netflix has been a pioneer in the digital ...


Free Music Downloads: Lily Allen's Remixed Album
About - News & Issues (blog)
BitTorrent -- if you haven't got a file sharing program, then see our Top 5 Free BitTorrent Programs for more information. Online file storage sites such as ...


More randomness and the Synology Rackstation RS409+
NetworkWorld.com
... and Synology Download Redirector for both Windows and OS X, which allows clients to initiate Bittorrent and URL file downloads directly to the RS409+. ...


TechSpot

Office 2010 beta sneaks onto wild wild web
Register
A beta version of Microsoft's Office 2010 software package has unsurprisingly tipped up on some BitTorrent ...
Office 2010 Beta Shipped to Testers, Build 14.0.4514.1009 Already LeakedSoftpedia

all 28 news articles »

Microsoft Confirms COFEE Leak - Softpedia


Microsoft Confirms COFEE Leak
Softpedia
Now COFEE is available for download on BitTorrent trackers and warez websites. “We have confirmed that unauthorized and modified versions of Microsoft's ...


The Inquisitr

Fake Carrie Prejean Sextape Video Infects pcs
The Inquisitr
The fake Carrie Prejean sextape video has appeared on Usenet and some bittorrent trackers, and according to infected users installs a variety of malware and ...

and more »

Demonoid Rewrites Code, Comeback is Imminent
TorrentFreak (blog)
It's been more than two months since the popular semi-private bittorrent tracker Demonoid went offline due to hardware problems, but the site's full return ...


County Shuts Down Hotspot after Movie Download
Wi-Fi Networking News
The article doesn't provide enough details to know whether this was via BitTorrent, a pirate movie site, or other means. It's possible it was a perfectly ...
One Strike, We're Out: Ohio Town's Surprising Reaction To Alleged PiracyMediaPost Publications
Sony Pictures and MPAA Shut Down Free WiFi in Coshocton, OhioNowPublic
One MPAA Complaint Closes Free Ohio Wi-Fi NetworkBroadbandReports.com

all 5 news articles »

Knock it off: Global treaty against media piracy won't work in Asia
San Francisco Chronicle
But as authorities began shutting down illicit activity in those venues, filesharers moved to decentralized options like BitTorrent, making it even harder ...

and more »

CNET News

Even in media mecca, plenty are willing to pirate
CNET News
As for downloading TV shows illegally via BitTorrent files, seven of those polled said "all the time." Five said never." 38 said only if they miss a show on ...

and more »

ScreenCrave.com

Zombieland Co-Writer: BitTorrent “Affects Likelihood” of Part 2
Zeropaid
Rheet Reese laments that Zombieland is currently the most pirated movie on BitTorrent, and says that it may ruin chances for a sequel. ...
bittorrent May Kill Zombieland Sequel, Writer ClaimsTorrentFreak (blog)
"Ink" breaks into imdb's top 20 due to pirating, illegal downloadsExaminer.com
Filmmakers Thank Movie Piracy for PopularityJustPressPlay
MyADSL -TechRadar UK -Westword
all 9 news articles »

P2P: Villain Or Vilified? Bram Cohen's Take
NewTeeVee (blog)
When BitTorrent co-founder Bram Cohen was introduced at NewTeeVee's Video Rights Roundtable this morning, interviewer Schlomo Rabinowitz asked the crowd, ...


TVTrigger Is Like iTunes for TV Torrenting
NewTeeVee (blog)
The same could soon happen to TV torrenting, thanks to a new BitTorrent application called TVTrigger. Windows-only TVTrigger is like an iTunes for your ...


One Strike, We're Out: Ohio Town's Surprising Reaction To Alleged Piracy
MediaPost Publications
Consider, last year University of Washington computer scientists published a paper detailing how their use of bittorrent resulted in hundreds of takedown ...


Australian Personal Computer

BitTorrent hub pushes ahead with next-gen file sharing network
Australian Personal Computer
Two Scandinavian ISPs have won the latest round of court battles in attempts to shut down popular Swedish Bit Torrent hub The Pirate Bay. ...

and more »

Zeropaid

Developer Pirates Own Game to BitTorrent Sites
Zeropaid
RedLynx, has admitted to uploading scaled down versions of Trials for the PC to a number of BitTorrent tracker sites. CEO Tero Virtala says the copies are ...


Sparkz Projector Blows Up Tiny iPhone Movies
Asylum (blog)
On a 3.5-inch screen, that pirated version of "Crank 2: High Voltage" that you got on BitTorrent just doesn't pop (and the severity of Jason Statham's ...

and more »

Zeropaid

Developer Pirates Own Games to bittorrent Sites
Zeropaid
redlynx, has admitted to uploading scaled down versions of Trials for the PC to a number of bittorrent tracker sites. CEO Tero Virtala says the copies are ...


JustPressPlay

BitTorrent May Kill Zombieland Sequel, Writer Claims
TorrentFreak (blog)
Zombieland co-writer Rhett Reese was shocked when he discovered more than a million people had downloaded his movie illegally on BitTorrent. ...
Filmmakers Thank Movie Piracy for PopularityJustPressPlay
Pirated Film Director: “Exposure Unquestionably a Positive Thing”Zeropaid
Indie filmmakers embrace web piracyTechRadar UK

all 5 news articles »

JustPressPlay

Filmmakers Thank Movie Piracy for Popularity
JustPressPlay
While the typical Hollywood studio frowns on movies being shared on BitTorrent, it's a different story for independent filmmakers. ...
Pirated Film Director: “Exposure Unquestionably a Positive Thing”Zeropaid

all 3 news articles »

Zeropaid

Android Phones and Downloading On the Go
Zeropaid
For readers of Zeropaid, however, a specific interest is likely to be how well Android phones perform as tools for Bittorrent , Usenet and direct ...


AFACT v iiNet: BitTorrent tracking details featured
Computerworld Australia
Bannon cited a paper from the University of Washington, which suggests “a more thorough approach to detecting infringement in BitTorrent would be to adopt ...

and more »

Magnetiser Downloads Torrents When No Torrent File Is Available
Lifehacker
Firefox: If you've used a BitTorrent search engine that lists lots of torrents but doesn't actually host any torrent files (like Torrentz), most of the time ...
How do you download torrentless torrents? Use Magnetiser for FirefoxDownloadsquad (blog)

all 3 news articles »

How do you download torrentless torrents? Use Magnetiser for Firefox
Downloadsquad (blog)
Want to download torrents without downloading a .torrent file first? You can do it with Magnet links, ...

and more »

Mandelson takes on the internet pirates - Nouse


Telegraph.co.uk

Mandelson takes on the internet pirates
Nouse
Recent court cases against popular BitTorrent tracker 'The Pirate Bay' have shown this. Perhaps hope lies in applications such as the increasingly popular ...
Twitter costs Lord Mandelson's department £3175 a yearTelegraph.co.uk

all 3 news articles »

Partially Spilled COFEE - Dark Reading


UberGizmo (blog)

Partially Spilled COFEE
Dark Reading
It turns out the version of COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) posted to BitTorrent sites is incomplete: it contains only 45 commands, ...
MS forensics tool leaks onto the webRegister

all 30 news articles »

Pirated Film Director: “Exposure Unquestionably a Positive Thing”
Zeropaid
Writer and director, while “not excited that people are seeing the film without paying,” love the fact that bittorrent has given Ink an “enormous amount of ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Indie Movie Explodes on bittorrent, Makers Bless Piracy
TorrentFreak (blog)
The makers of Ink belong to this latter group, and are thanking the hundreds and thousands of people who downloaded their movie on bittorrent. ...
Pirated Film Director: “Exposure Unquestionably a Positive Thing”Zeropaid

all 2 news articles »

Managed Copy comes to all Blu-Ray discs, but there's no hardware that supports it
Geek.com
In Blu-Ray's cade, this forces legitimate customers of Blu-Ray discs to flout DRM, violating the DMCA, or resort to Bittorrent sites to secure their back-up ...

and more »

Ars Technica

Hollywood's antipiracy charm offensive has FCC in crosshairs
Ars Technica
During the feature Stahl marveled at the demonstration of BitTorrent that she received from former Justice Department Attorney John Malcolm. ...

and more »

MS forensics tool leaks onto the web - Register


MS forensics tool leaks onto the web
Register
Despite this, copies of the software leaked onto the web and were briefly made available via BitTorrent, before the torrent tracker was pulled. ...

and more »

PerthNow

AFACT v iiNet: Barrister Tears Into iiNet Key Witnesses
TorrentFreak (blog)
Bannon said this had put Malone and Dalby in the position of providing evidence on matters they knew nothing about, citing the pair's lack of BitTorrent ...
Day 17: Film industry attacks iiNet witness selectioniT News
Copier case cited as iiNet fight ragesThe Australian
AFACT vs iiNet: AFACT alleges iiNet argument "deficient"Computerworld Australia
iT News -iT News
all 8 news articles »

Day 17: Film industry attacks iinet witness selection
iT News
"To put forward these two gentleman as the extent of familiarity of bittorrent in the company is an entirely inaccurate picture of a company which plainly ...

and more »

How Should TV Over Bittorrent Make Money?
Gizmodo Australia
Most of us, at some point or other, for some reason or other, have downloaded a TV show over Bittorrent. ...


PC Game Developer Pirates Own Game As Promotion
Techdirt
A bunch of folks sent in stories about the decision by smaller, indie PC game developer RedLynx to put its own "pirated" game on BitTorrent the same day as ...

and more »

How Will Channel BT Fund Itself?
Lifehacker Australia
Recent discussions have made it clear that downloading shows via bittorrent is by far the most popular way ...


Download Torrentless Torrents From Torrentz with Firefox
TorrentFreak (blog)
Torrentz.com is the largest BitTorrent search engine that doesn't actually host any torrent files. This means that its millions of users still depend on ...

oneswarm v0.67 - Afterdawn.com


oneswarm v0.67
Afterdawn.com
BitTorrent can operate as a fully backwards compatible bittorrent client, and its friend-to-friend data sharing features are built on cryptographic ...


Google VS. ATT: Who Wins Net Neutrality Battle?
The Wall Street Transcript (blog)
Today certain cable companies block bittorrent traffic on their networks. bittorrent is a wildly popular protocol that is used to download movies. ...
US Excerpts | Protect Net neutralityKansas City Star
FCC approves adoption of 'net neutrality' rulesLinex Legal (registration)
Net Neutrality - Another Big Lie?Right Side News

all 4 news articles »

TorrentFreak (blog)

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, 'Zombieland' tops the chart this week followed by '500 Days of Summer'. 'Surrogates' completes the top ...


InteractiveTV Today [itvt]

Myka Launches Intel Atom Processor-Based Over-the-Top STB Device
InteractiveTV Today [itvt]
We chose bittorrent as our P2P file transport system. This lets us tie in to the huge ION's network." More information on the Myka ion's specs can be found ...
NVIDIA's ION Platform Powers the Myka ION Media PlayerSoftpedia

all 2 news articles »

Q&A: isoHunt founder says P2P can help create post-piracy world
ARNnet
Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. ...

and more »

Anti-Piracy Group Reports Torrent Site Users to the Police
TorrentFreak (blog)
Lithuanian anti-piracy outfit LANVA has reported the IP-addresses of 106 users of the country's largest bittorrent site to the police, on allegations of ...


Q&A: isoHunt founder says P2P can help create post-piracy world
Computerworld
Computerworld - Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British ...


VODO Embraces bittorrent to Distribute Movies, Compensate Filmmakers
NewTeeVee (blog)
UK-based P2P video platform VODO published its second feature film on dozens of file-sharing sites Thursday, hoping that worldwide exposure will bring in ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

Game Developer Promotes Game on Torrent Sites
TorrentFreak (blog)
Last summer the gaming company RedLynx decided to market its new game Trials 2 on various BitTorrent sites. Instead of worrying that the game might end up ...
Games Developer RedLynx Pirates Own Games For Marketing BoostpaidContent:UK
RedLynx Intentionally Leaked Trials To Torrent SitesGamasutra
Developer Leaks Own Game to PiratesEscapist Magazine
GamesIndustry.biz -Geek.com
all 7 news articles »

Myka ION HD Player Is the First To Deliver Both Hulu and Boxee
Gizmodo.com
You may remember Myka from their bittorrent player, but now they are bringing Hulu, Boxee and NVIDIA ION graphics to the table with the Myka ION. ...


Gamasutra

Games Developer RedLynx Pirates Own Games For Marketing Boost
paidContent:UK
And lacking the legal might and political clout to influence parliaments and take BitTorrent trackers to court, indie producers just have to get on with the ...
RedLynx Intentionally Leaked Trials To Torrent SitesGamasutra
RedLynx: We put Trials PC game on torrent sitesGamesIndustry.biz

all 4 news articles »

Remains of the Day: BitTorrent Tracker Demonoid is Back Online Edition
Lifehacker
Popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is back online, upgrades are in the works for Google Video chat, and an interactive concept surface displays the New ...
Demonoid is Alive, The Tracker Has ReturnedTorrentFreak (blog)

all 2 news articles »

Comcast implements new throttling system
Electronista (blog)
... company to drop format-specific throttling following an FCC ruling that barred it from discriminating against BitTorrent and other specific protocols. ...
Comcast announces new bandwidth throttling schemeengadget (blog)

all 2 news articles »

TorrentFreak (blog)

In Guantanamo Film Premieres on bittorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
With support from the three largest bittorrent sites and many other well known file-sharing partners, the VODO project offers a novel distribution platform ...


Demonoid is Alive, The Tracker Has Returned
TorrentFreak (blog)
It has been many weeks since the popular semi-private bittorrent tracker Demonoid went offline. The site's owner claimed the downtime was due to hardware ...

uTorrent v2.0 Throttles Itself - Zeropaid


uTorrent v2.0 Throttles Itself
Zeropaid
BitTorrent client will throttle upload speed when network congestion is detected, diminishing the need for ISPs to throttle BitTorrent traffic as part of ...


ZDNet.com.au

AFACT v iiNet: ISP lacks technical capability to block BitTorrent websites
Computerworld Australia
Internet service provider (ISP) iiNet does not have the technical capabilities to block BitTorrent traffic to websites like The Pirate Bay, ...
AFACT v iiNet: Half of All iiNet Traffic is BitTorrentTorrentFreak (blog)
Day 13: iiNet CEO says BitTorrent dominates trafficiT News
AFACT submits news articles as evidence against iiNetARNnet
iT News -ARNnet -iT News
all 51 news articles »

3 News NZ

Top 10 most downloaded movies on bittorrent
3 News NZ
In the top ten most downloaded movies on bittorrent this week, Paranormal Activity tops the list followed by Terminator Salvation and Surrogates. ...


60 Minutes: The Mexican Mafia & bittorrent?
Tom's Guide
Editorial: Seriously? A report better suited for a comedy sketch on “The Daily Show” than a news piece on ...


VentureBeat

McAfee: Number of Illegal File-Sharing Sites Up 300%
Zeropaid
The magic of BitTorrent and a decent broadband connection can deliver a 700MB XVID movie to your desktop in less than twenty minutes. ...
McAfee Notes Brief Surge in BitTorrent SitesSlyck
Pirate Bay closure starts increase in file-sharingCDInsight
Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sitesZDNet UK
IT PRO -PC Advisor -eWeek
all 59 news articles »

isps 'could lift filesharing restrictions'
Top 10 Broadband
According to BitTorrent's, a significant change being made to bittorrent's utp protocol will effectively allow popular clients to restrict how much traffic ...


ZDNet.com.au

AFACT v iiNet: Half of All iiNet Traffic is BitTorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
CW reports that AFACT presented press articles regarding the levels of BitTorrent transfers on the Internet, in the context of actions taken by ISPs in ...
Day 13: iinet CEO says bittorrent dominates trafficiT News
AFACT submits news articles as evidence against iiNetARNnet
'Thanks for choosing iiNet. Happy downloading.': invitation to infringe?iTWire
The Australian -CRN Australia -iT News
all 43 news articles »

Linux torrents get a mention in landmark court case
Computerworld Australia
The Federal Court of Australia has heard how peer-to-peer software, bittorrent, is used to distribute Linux-based operating systems. ...


ZDNet.com.au

Day 13: iinet CEO says BitTorrent dominates traffic
iT News
BitTorrent is a technology that allows online users to share parts of a film or song, for instance, over the internet. The pieces are stitched together on ...
Linux torrents get a mention in landmark court caseComputerworld Australia
AFACT submits news articles as evidence against iinetARNnet
AFACT v iinet: – Pirates Will Be Cut Off With a Court OrderTorrentFreak (blog)
iTWire -CRN Australia -The Australian
all 44 news articles »

ZDNet.com.au

AFACT v iiNet: Malone would prefer illegal downloaders to go elsewhere
Computerworld Australia
In the AFR article, Malone was quoted as saying that BitTorrent traffic would account for about half of all internet traffic. “I'm aware that BitTorrent has ...
AFACT submits news articles as evidence against iinetARNnet
AFACT v iiNet: – Pirates Will Be Cut Off With a Court OrderTorrentFreak (blog)
Day Eleven: iinet chief has "never used" a bittorrent clientiT News
iTWire -The Australian -SmartCompany.com.au
all 38 news articles »

Internet Shaping For Beginners
Lifehacker Australia
If you haven't been regularly using BitTorrent or otherwise downloading large files, there's two likely possibilities: either your ISP is hopeless at ...


The Tech Herald

McAfee Notes Brief Surge in BitTorrent Sites
Slyck
There's at least one benefit to The Pirate Bay's brief departure from the Internet in August - it showed the resiliency of the BitTorrent community. ...
Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sitesZDNet UK
McAfee: Illegal file-sharing sites on the risePC Advisor
Pirate Bay prosecution saw explosion of file sharingIT PRO
eWeek
all 44 news articles »

Review: FON Fonera 2.0n - Wi-Fi Planet


Review: FON Fonera 2.0n
Wi-Fi Planet
(Using FAT32 may not be practical—especially for bittorrent use—due to 4GB file size limits.) Another complaint is that after viewing our uploaded files on ...


VentureBeat

Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sites
ZDNet UK
"Open-source code was available to anyone who wanted to help with redistribution of the BitTorrents." Users created their own BitTorrent sites in August to ...
Pirate Bay prosecution saw explosion of file sharingIT PRO
mcafee: P2P site on the risePC Advisor
McAfee: Piracy Sites Jump 300 PercenteWeek

all 38 news articles »

Leslie Stahl Needs To Get a Clue About P2P
DaniWeb (blog)
At one point, Stahl explained P2P networking using Bit Torrent in a way that made it sound like it was used exclusively for movie pirates and that it was ...


Pocket-lint.com

New BitTorrent P2P File Sharing Client to Restrict Own Broadband Traffic
ISPReview UK
"This has obvious benefits for users who will no longer congest themselves, benefits for publishers who want to use BitTorrent but also want to protect ...
Revised BitTorrent protocol removes the need for ISP throttlingTechSpot
New BitTorrent protocol exercises self-controlGood Morning Silicon Valley (blog)
bittorrent Gets A Little Smarter Organically helps to improve network congestionDslreports
Pocket-lint.com -PC World -Inquirer
all 23 news articles »

ZDNet.com.au

Day Eleven: iiNet chief has "never used" a BitTorrent client
iT News
iiNet chief Michael Malone told the Federal Court yesterday he had "never used a BitTorrent client" but had a general understanding of the ...
AFACT v iiNet: Day 9 – AFACT Attacks iiNet Piracy PolicyTorrentFreak (blog)
Hollywood attacks piracy as isps ignore safe harbourThe Australian
AFACT v iiNet: Michael Malone grilled on copyright breach policyComputerworld Australia
SmartCompany.com.au -iTWire -ZDNet.com.au
all 15 news articles »

MPAA Propaganda Hits 60 Minutes
TorrentFreak (blog)
The only piece of the entire item that was pretty accurate and worth watching was the explanation of how BitTorrent works. John Malcolm, a former Director ...
60 Minutes Puts Forth Laughable, Factually Incorrect MPAA Propaganda On Movie ...Techdirt
The Movie Industry Needs To Stop Whining About Piracy And Embrace Digital (DIS ...The Business Insider

all 3 news articles »

Revised BitTorrent protocol removes the need for ISP throttling
TechSpot
BitTorrent Inc. is preparing to launch a redesigned implementation of the BitTorrent protocol that could benefit both ISPs ...


Think Progress

NCTA, NBCU: FCC bittorrent Order 'Shackles' isps
Multichannel News
The fcc's bittorrent order "shackles" Internet service providers" in their attemps to thwart online piracy, leaves network operators guessing about what ...
Biggest Net Neutrality boosters question FCC proposalWashington Post (blog)
Dissension Festering in the Net Neutrality RanksGigaOm (blog)
Did Congress really give the FCC power to protect the 'Net?Ars Technica

all 21 news articles »

BOL 1097: Beatles Bargain Basement Blowout!
CNET News
In other news, file sharers might buy more music, Bittorrent might save the Internet, and Apple could save the networks (but kill cable). ...

and more »

Vid-Biz: Comcast, uTorrent 2.0, Simpsons
NewTeeVee (blog)
(The New York Times) uTorrent 2.0 to Be a Network Friendly BitTorrent Protocol; will eliminate the need for ISPs to throttle BitTorrent traffic because the ...


Pocket-lint.com

Bittorrent protocol gets anti-throttling update
Pocket-lint.com
A new version of the Bittorrent protocol is about to launch. Bittorrent is a distribution technique for online content that's used heavily by both ...
New BitTorrent protocol exercises self-controlGood Morning Silicon Valley (blog)
BitTorrent Gets A Little Smarter Organically helps to improve network congestionDslreports
Music Piracy Wars May Finally Take a BreakPC World
Inquirer -Gizmodo.com -Downloadsquad (blog)
all 19 news articles »

TorrentFreak (blog)

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on bittorrent
TorrentFreak (blog)
The top 10 most downloaded movies on bittorrent, 'Paranormal Activity' tops the chart this week followed by 'Terminator Salvation'. ...

and more »

IT PRO

Pirate Bay prosecution saw explosion of file sharing
IT PRO
Headlines around The Pirate Bay lead to an explosion in growth of BitTorrent websites hoping to fill the gap. By Asavin Wattanajantra, 2 Nov 2009 at 16:33 ...

and more »

Apple Wants itunes to Replace Your Cable Box for 30 Bucks a Month
Gizmodo.com
The internet is the new cable: Netflix, Hulu, bittorrent. Apple might not get to launch it in a few months, but it will happen. Just give it time. ...

and more »

Music Piracy Wars May Finally Take a Break
PC World
that BitTorrent is developing new software aimed at eliminating any reason for ISPs to throttle peer-to-peer (P2P) network traffic. ...
New BitTorrent protocol exercises self-controlGood Morning Silicon Valley (blog)
BitTorrent Gets A Little Smarter Organically helps to improve network congestionDslreports
P2P software throttles itselfInquirer
Downloadsquad (blog) -UberGizmo (blog) -CrunchGear (blog)
all 12 news articles »

BitTorrent Gets A Little Smarter Organically helps to improve network congestion
Dslreports
Torrent Freak explores how the latest version of the popular uTorrent BitTorrent client is slightly more intelligent, detecting network congestion and ...
New BitTorrent protocol exercises self-controlGood Morning Silicon Valley (blog)
P2P software throttles itselfInquirer
New version of BitTorrent heralds a new age of uncongested file sharingDownloadsquad (blog)
UberGizmo (blog) -CrunchGear (blog) -Technology Bites (blog)
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New BitTorrent protocol exercises self-control
Good Morning Silicon Valley (blog)
The widely used BitTorrent protocol for peer-to-peer sharing of large files has been a bandwidth bugaboo for Internet service providers for several years ...


Think Progress

Biggest Net Neutrality boosters question FCC proposal
Washington Post (blog)
In the fcc's recent rule against Comcast for allegedly blocking file-sharing site bittorrent, the agency grappled for months about what it defined as ...
Did Congress really give the FCC power to protect the 'Net?Ars Technica

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Broadband Content Bits: UK-Torrents; BBC Democracy Live; Cisco-Tandberg
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—UK-Torrents: The secretive bittorrent tracker UK Torrents - also known as UK-T - has closed. The private community was estimated to have fewer than 5000 ...

P2P software throttles itself - Inquirer


P2P software throttles itself
Inquirer
P2P SOPFTWARE OUTFIT Bit Torrent is about to be upgraded so that it can deal with attempts by ISPs to throttle traffic by throttling itself. ...
New version of BitTorrent heralds a new age of uncongested file sharingDownloadsquad (blog)
uTorrent To Self-throttle?UberGizmo (blog)
In Soviet uTorrent, bandwidth throttles you!CrunchGear (blog)
Technology Bites (blog) -TorrentFreak (blog)
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ZDNet.com.au

AFACT v iiNet: Day 8 – AFACT Attacks iiNet Piracy Policy
TorrentFreak (blog)
Cross-examining Malone on iiNet's role in providing a broadband service which enabled users to share movies using BitTorrent, senior counsel Tony Bannon for ...
Hollywood attacks piracy as isps ignore safe harbourThe Australian
AFACT v iiNet: Michael Malone grilled on copyright breach policyComputerworld Australia
iiNet chief Michael Malone set to take stand in copyright caseSmartCompany.com.au
iT News -ZDNet.com.au -iT News
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10 Temporary New Homes For Those Missing Demonoid
TorrentFreak (blog)
Unfortunately this did not happen, and the regulars at one of the largest bittorrent trackers on the Internet had to find a new hideout. ...


TorrentFreak (blog)

UK-T Shut Down For Good, Database Deleted
TorrentFreak (blog)
In 2005, the MPAA initiated a crackdown on bittorrent sites linking to TV shows. Among those was UK-Torrents, a site that was later reborn as secretive ...


Hollywood attacks piracy as ISPs ignore safe harbour
The Australian
... like many other internet service providers, not to stop some of its customers using software such as BitTorrent to illegally share files on its network. ...

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New version of BitTorrent heralds a new age of uncongested file sharing
Downloadsquad (blog)
You probably all know what BitTorrent is: it's the technology that powers almost every peer-to-peer ...
uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP ThrottlingTorrentFreak (blog)

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Comcast Combats bittorrent Call
Multichannel News
In reply comments filed with the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Comcast said that in the bittorrent order, the commission “bobs and weaves,” “ducks ...

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