Huge news broke this morning when information got leaked to the press regarding an acquisition of The Pirate Bay. It's said that they got $7.8 million for the site which will be turned over to the buyers, Global Gaming Factory X, in August.
One of the things that is always hard about downloading from the BitTorrent network is trying to figure out what's legit and what's not. A lot of times I rely on the comments from other people to tell me whether the content is what it should be, or whether someone is trying to play a cruel trick.
Big news came Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) when Steve Ballmer said that they would be releasing a copy of Windows 7 Beta that the public can actually get their hands on.
The open-source file sharing application Shareaza has been going through some tough times lately. They had their domain hijacked by a company called Discordia Ltd. back in December 2007, which is the same company who turned Bearshare and iMesh into paid services. On the Shareaza.com site they then started offering an app called "Shareaza 4" that promotes legal downloads.
uTorrent is definitely one of my favorite BitTorrent clients on Windows, and after 9-months of development version 1.8 has finally been released. This new release includes full Vista support (including the Windows Firewall), Teredo/IPv6, and numerous other enhancements.
I've been a big fan of uTorrent for quite some time mostly because of its small size, but there are a lot of features it has that I've never really needed. For example, how often do you look at all of those fancy graphs in uTorrent? If you feel the same way then you might want to checkout the Halite BitTorrent client.
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.
Win; Mac; Linux 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 solutions that each run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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.
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 end I was content with what it had to offer.
