Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen’s popular BitTorrent protocol.
A couple of days ago we reported about the deal between the creator of BitTorrent (Bram Cohen) and the MPAA. Well this is what it looks like. Aint it cute? A couple of days ago we reported about the deal between the creator of BitTorrent (Bram Cohen) and the MPAA. Well this is what it [...]
Help! BitTorrent is slow… This is probably one of the most frequently asked questions I get about BitTorrent. Unfortunately there’s not some kind of magic trick that makes your torrents go through the roof. But you could take some simple steps to optimize your speeds.
Did you ever wonder what’s powering a site like The Piratebay? Take a look at their hardware. The web part runs on 2 and the tracker on 6 servers. But, as you may have noticed (search is down every now and then), they need even more to stay alive. Did you ever wonder what’s powering [...]
Tvtorrent.info makes browsing for mininova’s tv-torrents easier. They list all the tv-episodes from mininova. You can browse for fresch torrents or browse all the torrents from your favorite show. There’s also a link to the episode list included (epguides.com). Nice job. thx digg Tvtorrent.info makes browsing for mininova’s tv-torrents easier. They list all the tv-episodes [...]
Paul Stamatiou wrote an excellent tutorial on configuring and finetuning Azureus. Part 1 configuring Part 2 optimization & plugins Part 3 anonymity Paul Stamatiou wrote an excellent tutorial on configuring and finetuning Azureus. Part 1 configuring Part 2 optimization & plugins Part 3 anonymity
Another great invention. The “Lamabox” (dutch) is the worlds first media player that supports p2p downloads. This neat gadget has a connection to all the big 2p2 networks so you’re able to download whatever you want directly onto it’s built in harddrive. Once the download is complete, you can watch it on your tv, or burn it onto a dvd.
The new Azureus is out. Some nice improvements are made, besides the usual bugfixes.
Google is a great search engine, even for torrents. It’s a really old trick, but it can be quite useful sometimes. Just add “filetype:torrent” in google before your keywords and google wil find the torrent. So if you’re searching for a “harry potter” torrent you should type something like this: “filetype:torrent harry potter”. Google is [...]
Bram Cohen and the MPAA have a deal. All the copyrighted material from the “official” BitTorrent search engine will be removed.
The MPAA and Bram Cohen, founder of BitTorrent, are giving a press conference tomorrow. It looks like they finally reached an agreement. The two have been talking for a while about the plans of the MPAA to make an online movie distrubution model.
The rich get poorer and the poor get richer. That’s what filesharing does for the music industry. No wonder the RIAA is desperately trying to shutdown all filesharing activities.
Firefox has some great advantages when it comes to browsing and downloading torrents. Of course Firefox is just a browser, but if you use it the right way, your daily bit of torrent will get a lot easier. Let me explain.
Looking for a great torrent client? uTorrent is a relatively new player on the market, besides the always popular Bitcomet and Azureus. It has all the advanced feature you need, but uses less cpu and memory.
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The international Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announced 2100 legal cases.
Today I bumped into a realy old torrent, the oldest torrent I know of.
Warner Brothers is offering a new service in the near future. They are preparing to set up an p2p service to download a bunch of classic TV shows.
TVtad is a very easy and useful app that reads rss feeds. Just put in your favorite shows and tvtad automatically downloads them as soon as the torrent is posted.
Missed a tv-show? Just find a peer who taped it! At least that’s what Fox says on their website.
Mongo56.org, the biggest torrent tracker out there, is facing serious DDOS attacks.
The Dutch antipiracy organization called BREIN plans to take down all the torrent sites in the Netherlands. The reason for this new campaign is the resurrection of Suprnova. Snarf-it already took down the tracker, more sites will probably folow. link link The Dutch antipiracy organization called BREIN plans to take down all the torrent sites [...]
Finally, we had to wait for almost a year, but suprnova is back. Sloncek and some friends improved the code, changed the name but kept the same look. The site is now called newnova.org. Just hope they stay with us for a while this time… Finally, we had to wait for almost a year, but [...]
A relatively young torrentsite with a lot of potential. Fast, clean, great design and no ads. But who are these guys? Time to ask some questions….
There’s a new project on it’s way that is going to be a huge step forward in the BitTorrent community.
Grokster is dead. The well known adware supported p2p client was forced to go down their service by the US Supreme court.
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