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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. If a user installs

As a recent college graduate I look back now astonished at how many thousands of dollars I spent buying books over the four-years I was at school. It didn't matter if the books were new or used, either way you had to fork out an arm and a leg for materials that hardly even got used.

One site is looking to get around that by utilizing the BitTorrent network as a means to share downloads of

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

Time Saving Tuesday

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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