Posts Tagged ‘BitTorrent’

The Pirate Bay Wants to Help You Discover Music

The Pirate Bay sure does care about their users, don't they? :) Today they've shown this by launching a music discovery feature to help people find more of the music that they like so that they can spend more time downloading files. They were able to offer this thanks to data from Last.fm.

November 29th, 2007
The Pirate Bay Wants to Help You Discover Music

Watch Out Joost… Here Comes Miro!

Watch out Joost because here comes Miro! Some of you may have heard Miro mentioned quite a bit around the Web between yesterday and today, and that's because it really is worth talking about it. Everybody wants to get their hands on the open-source, rather slick video player with thousands of unrestricted channels including HD content.

November 14th, 2007
Watch Out Joost… Here Comes Miro!

O Demonoid, Demonoid, Wherefore art thou Demonoid

Demonoid, a popular invite-only BitTorrent tracker, seems to be swimming in some murky waters lately. At the end of September Demonoid was forced to temporarily shutdown by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), which is equivalent to America's RIAA. They came back online a few days later after installing a system to block all Canadian traffic.

November 9th, 2007
O Demonoid, Demonoid, Wherefore art thou Demonoid

Comcast Throttles Torrent Downloads – Workarounds Revealed

Comcast is quickly gaining enemies from the BitTorrent crowd by using new technology to throttle torrent downloads.  The Associated Press was able to confirm that they are in fact doing this through tests all over the nation.  In their report they say that this move is "the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S.

October 22nd, 2007
Comcast Throttles Torrent Downloads – Workarounds Revealed

How Far is the MPAA Willing to Go?

Stopping piraters from downloading movies illegally is at the very top of the MPAA's task list.  Given that, they have gone to some great lengths to enforce their zero tolerance policy, and an exclusive article over at Wired today points this out.  The article starts out "Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown's anti-piracy lobby." This situation involving Robert Anderson is just one of many examples of what the MPAA is doing to try and stop piracy, but does it really do them any good?

October 22nd, 2007
How Far is the MPAA Willing to Go?

MediaDefender: The Hunter Becomes the Hunted

MediaDefender is a popular company who's goal is to thwart illegal file, music, and movie sharing. Their 60 employees and 2,000 servers are used to post fake files (that appear to be real) on the file sharing networks, and they can load corrupt data into the files being downloaded on the Kazaa network.

September 20th, 2007
MediaDefender: The Hunter Becomes the Hunted

Nero 8 Download Leaked 3-Weeks Early

Last month we reported that the Nero 8 download would be available to buyers on October 1st, but pirates can get it starting today! As with many high-profile applications this one has been leaked to the file sharing networks a full 3-weeks before the consumer release was scheduled. And as expected screenshots are also making their way around the Web: StartSmart, Burning Rom, Vision, and Showtime.

September 10th, 2007
Nero 8 Download Leaked 3-Weeks Early

CyberNotes: Top 15 Ultra Tiny Apps

Hard drives are becoming huge these days, and most applications have begun to make use of the abundant space that barely ever gets filled up. I’m a big proponent to full-featured applications as long as they serve a purpose, but size isn’t always the best representation of quality. To prove that, I set out to find 15 top-notch apps that take up little to no room on your hard drive.

September 4th, 2007
CyberNotes: Top 15 Ultra Tiny Apps

Court to Pirater: No Linux – You Must Use Windows

All of you Linux fans out there are definitely going to be able to sympathize with this guy. Scott McCausland, a proud Linux user, was convicted of downloading an episode of Star Wars illegally over BitTorrent last year.

August 24th, 2007
Court to Pirater: No Linux – You Must Use Windows

SuprNova is Back!

It’s hard to believe that after being shutdown for 3-years SuprNova is back up again. Thanks to the Pirate Bay I’ve since been reunited with this long lost friend, who has even been spruced up a bit since I had used it last!

August 21st, 2007
SuprNova is Back!

CyberNotes: Increase the Connection Limit in Vista & XP (Event ID 4226)

When Microsoft released Windows XP SP2, (as well Vista) they imposed a connection limitation on the operating system. It’s not something that you can readily notice without digging to see if it occurs, but the chances are good that your computer has hit this limit at some time or another.

August 16th, 2007
CyberNotes: Increase the Connection Limit in Vista & XP (Event ID 4226)

Free Music Downloads

Wouldn’t it be nice to get some free music downloads with no strings attached? That’s something many of us long for, and it’s the same thing that the RIAA despises. One of the places where I can download free music is a site that one of my friends told me about, and it’s called PureVolume.

August 9th, 2007
Free Music Downloads

SuprNova.org BitTorrent Network Revived by The Pirate Bay?

Anyone that has been using BitTorrent for several years undoubtedly knows, or used, the SuprNova.org site. It was a BitTorrent tracker much like what The Pirate Bay is today, and before shutting SuprNova down in December 2004 it was bringing in some 1.5 million visitors per day.

August 3rd, 2007
SuprNova.org BitTorrent Network Revived by The Pirate Bay?

BitLet – The Online BitTorrent Downloader

One of the things that I’ve never liked about the BitTorrent files is that they can be such a pain to download. Often times you need a separate application, such as uTorrent, to download any of the files. I have found that it is something that most people just don’t understand.

July 31st, 2007
BitLet – The Online BitTorrent Downloader

uTorrent Now on your Mobile Device

My favorite dedicated BitTorrent client has always been uTorrent, and with the new uTorrent mUI you’ll be able to control your Torrent downloads no matter where you are at. It is optimized for mobile devices, and works great on Opera Mini or on the iPhone. When you pull it up you’ll quickly be able to gain access to all of the important information regarding your current Torrents:

July 26th, 2007
uTorrent Now on your Mobile Device

Infamous Harry Potter Photographer Left Evidence

There’s been a lot of Harry Potter craziness going on, particularly when Harry Potter made it to BitTorrent a few days before its grand release. Then of course there was the hoopla over at The Pirate Bay with their “Torrent on Fire” logo after they were accused that they facilitated in the distribution of pre-released copies of the book.

July 24th, 2007
Infamous Harry Potter Photographer Left Evidence

Opera 9.22 Available with Improved BitTorrent Support

The Opera team has been working intensely on version 9.5, and we’ll hopefully be seeing weekly builds of those coming shortly. In the meantime they have whipped up Opera 9.22 which has significant improvements to the BitTorrent downloader.

July 18th, 2007
Opera 9.22 Available with Improved BitTorrent Support

Final Harry Potter Already on BitTorrent

One week before the very last book in the Harry Potter series is released, and it’s already made its way to the BitTorrent Network. Over at The Pirate Bay, it looks like there are two downloads, one for the first 495 pages, and the other for the remainder of the pages.

July 17th, 2007
Final Harry Potter Already on BitTorrent

uTorrent 1.7 Now in a Stable Form

uTorrent 1.7 was released today after several months in the making, and after being bought out by BitTorrent back in December 2006. Fear that the tiny little BitTorrent downloader would become a bloated sibling like it’s new older brother can be put to rest. This is the same ol’ uTorrent that we have all come to know and love...except with some notable new features.

July 13th, 2007
uTorrent 1.7 Now in a Stable Form

FireTorrent: The Best BitTorrent Extension for Firefox Yet

This was surely a long time coming, but it looks like there is a real add-on available for users who want to download BitTorrent files in Firefox. Previously we had reviewed FoxTorrent that worked as expected, but it had to install an additional application that was used to do the dirty work.

June 13th, 2007
FireTorrent: The Best BitTorrent Extension for Firefox Yet