Archive for November, 2005

Less popular artists profit from filesharing

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.

BitTorrent & Firefox

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.

uTorrent, a great torrent client

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.
Check out the features:

Music industry announces more lawsuits

The international Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announced 2100 legal cases.

A really old torrent…

Today I bumped into a realy old torrent, the oldest torrent I know of.

Warner Brothers goes p2p

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.

Auto download TV torrents

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.

Fox advises to share shows

Missed a tv-show? Just find a peer who taped it! At least that’s what Fox says on their website.

BitTorrent tracker facing attack

Mongo56.org, the biggest torrent tracker out there, is facing serious DDOS attacks.

Dutch Sites Going Down

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.
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Suprnova Back!

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…