There is a common misconception that the only torrents available are of pirated music, movies, and software. While a bulk of the traffic shared between the BitTorrent network is illegal, there are also some ways that it is used for good. For example, the BitTorrent network serves as a great way for Linux distributions to share new releases. That way the traffic is spread across hundreds or thousands of

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If you have ever switched to a new operating system you know how tricky it can be to find certain applications to replace the ones that you had. That's why today we wanted to point out five excellent BitTorrent

It was just last Friday that Demonoid was resurrected, and staying true to our promise we're giving away the 5 invites that we have! Demonoid is a private invite-only BitTorrent service that has an amazing community, and we're happy to offer some of our readers a chance to be a part of it.

Here's what you have to do for a chance to receive an

We wrote about the YouTorrent site a few months ago because it really stood out from the crowd. It quickly became one of my favorite torrent search engines since it gathered results from a dozen or so different sources in real-time. It definitely lacks some of the advanced search features that many of you love, but in

The title says it all! Demonoid, a BitTorrent tracker, has been down since November 2007 when the Canadian Recording Industry forced them to close their doors. TorrentFreak reported today that the site would be resurrected under a new administrator, but I don't think anyone was expecting that it would happen so quickly.

While it's sad to report that Deimos is no longer in control

The Band Nine Inch Nails really seems to understand where the music industry is headed. They recently released their new album called "Ghosts" on Torrent sites as a free download.  NIN isn't contracted to any specific record label, so they have the freedom to decide how they are going to spread their music. The band was quoted as saying in their release notes

Microsoft just made a big announcement today stating that Vista SP1 has been completed and was released to manufacturing. Unfortunately Microsoft is holding off on making the Vista SP1 download generally available until the middle of March because of some driver issues reported by some testers. Here's what the release schedule looks like for Vista SP1 along with the reasoning they are holding off