BitTorrent 2005 part 5, Filling the gap
When suprnova.org was taken offline 19 december 2004, there was a gap to fill. Initially lokitorrent took over. Lokitorrent’s traffic tripled within a week. But a month later lokitorrent died too.
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BitTorrent 2005 part 4, Bram Talking
BitTorrent’s founder Bram Cohen doesn’t like to be in the news a lot. But once you create the worlds most effective filesharing technology, you can’t escape. Here are some quotes from Bram in 2005
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NASA is using BitTorrent
Even the US government is using BitTorrent these days. We all know bandwith is pretty expensive, so NASA decided to make their woldwind project available through BitTorrent. Here’s a link
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BitTorrent 2005 part 3, Going Down!
Torrent sites go down. That’s the way it always has been, and this is also true for 2005.
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BitTorrent 2005 part 2, Legal stuff
A lot of legal issues surrounded BitTorrent in 2005. MPAA’s “war on BitTorrent” led to the death of two major torrentsites (torrentstop and lokitorrent) and several smaller sites in the beginning of 2005. But.. this was only the beginning…
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BitTorrent 2005 part 1, A rough start
The year 2005 started without Suprnova.org. Suprnova was taken offline by it’s admin on 19 december 2004, which left a huge gap that was initially filled by Lokitorrent. It did’t take very long though. Nearly a month after Suprnova died, Lokitorrent was being sued by the MPAA.
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AllPeers, a BitTorrent extension for Firefox
AllPeers is a revolutionary Firefox extension that makes it possible to share pictures, music and video’s within Firefox.
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Merry Christmas
Christmas… there is no way to escape from it. Even uTorrent hired their personal Santa, accompanied by some awfull music, to wish me a merry christmas. Read further to see the pic. Anyway, Merry Chrismas to you all.
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BitTorrent’s popularity is growing
Despite of all the lawsuits and several desperate attempts to shut down torrent sites, BitTorrent’s popularity is still growing. Based on Alexa rankings, the bigger torrent sites still seem to grow. And besides this, new sites a launched succesfully.
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New look for Torrentz.com
Torrentz.com updated their site design. A clean look, it’s good to see that they are still improving.
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Top 15 Torrent Sites of 2005
2005 is almost over. Time for a list of the best torrent sites out there. Five categories, fifteen sites.
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MPAA about BitTorrent
Slyck interviewed Dean Garfield, the Vice President and Director of Legal Affairs of the MPAA.
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BitTorrent is hiring
Are you really into BitTorrent and looking for a job? Bram Cohen can use a little help. BitTorrent inc. is looking for: Webdesigners Product managers Python engineers Support managers Marketing directors Check it out!
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Canadian ISP is throttling BitTorrent traffic
The Canadian ISP “Rogers” has started to kill all BitTorrent traffic on their network. Rogers uses a bit-shaping application to throttle the traffic that is generated by BitTorrent and other p2p applications.
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Unwanted torrents
A group of “hackers” is auto-installing BitTorrent on pc’s infected with the Lockx.exe Rootkit. They use this to “infect” those pc’s with horrible disney cartoons and mr. Bean movies. Inconvenient, but not really dangerous… however, you can easily imagine how they can use this to spread more evil things.
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Speed up Bitcomet and uTorrent
In a previous post we advised to raise the maximum amount of half-open tcp connections to speed up your torrents. On itself this is a great trick, however I recently discovered that 90% off all people use the default settings on their client, and that’s a problem.
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Torrent site for sale on Ebay
Ever wanted to own your very own torrent website, this is your chance. TheTorrentNetwork.org is being sold on Ebay.
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Sloncek uncovers the truth about suprnova.org
A year ago, Suprnova.org was taken offline by Sloncek. There was a lot of speculation why this happened. Some people guessed it was because of legal issues, others suggested that Sloncek sold his soul to the devil (read exeem).
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Snarf-it.org is back
At least.. Almost…
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The old days
Bittorent is nearly 3 years old and still getting more popular evey day. Let’s take a look at the “old” days. In the first half of 2003 BitTorrent had his big break. It started with porn, because Bram Cohen needed a lot of peers to test the protocol, and it seemed that giving away free porn was the best way to do this.
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Extend uTorrent’s search function
uTorrent is a highly customizable torrent client which allows you to add your favorite torrentsites to search.
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Another Free TV-Show
Free TV-Shows are getting more popular and are expected to become the next “revolution” on the internet.
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Use Thunderbird to manage your TV-torrents
A couple of days we wrote a story about BitTorrent & Firefox, today we show how you can use Mozilla’s mail client Thunderbird to organize your (tv) torrents.
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Private Trackers Ban Bitcomet
Slyck reports that an increasing number of private trackers is banning Bitcomet because it is ignoring the “private flag”.
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Torrent Clients Compared
A week ago I tested the 3 most popular clients (Azureus, Bitcomet, and uTorrent) to see which of the 3 performed the best.
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Legal Movie Torrents… organized
Earlier this week we posted about the Public Domain torrent site.
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uTorrent 1.3 Released
a href=”http://utorrent.com/” target=”_blank”>µTorrent has all the advanced feature you need, but uses less cpu and memory. The biggest change is the support for unicode.
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World’s first free HDTV show
MariposaHD is the first free TVshow available in HDTV format. The show is about the "adventures" of the Mariposa girls and totally depends on BitTorrent as a distribution method.
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Firefox torrent search plugins
Firefox search plugins for torrent sites are great. I created an installer for the search plugins of the best torrent sites available.
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Chicks + Calculus + BitTorrent
Strange combo, but it can be useful if you want to watch girls in bikini teaching you some neat calculus skillz. How-To-Do-Girls
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Customizable Tv-Torrent Site
BTseasonPass is a TV-torrent site that allows you to select (once you signed up) which shows appear on the site.
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Public Domain Movies
Public Domain Torrents offers an extensive collection of Classic and B-Movie torrents. The copyright of these movies has expired so you are free to share them.
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BitTorrent field study
Arnaud Legout studied the “rarest first” and the “choking” agorithms in a real-life setting. In total 12 torrents with a different number and ratio of seeders and leechers were studied.
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Kazaa says no to Australia
Kazaa (an ancient p2p client) warns Australians.
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Redefining the war
USA today has an interesting column about the ongoing “war against filesharing”.
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Newnova.org improvements and future plans
Newnova.org, a site based on the famous suprnova.org code is live for almost 2 months now.
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Bram Cohen talks about BitTorrent
Check out his nerdy laugh. 1. Bram talking about himself and BitTorrent on 24×7.com. 2. Bram going into tech detail at Stanford. It’s almost a year old, but maybe some of you haven’t seen it yet.
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Firefox torrents
Firefox 1.5 was released a few days ago. It keeps getting better and better. Save them some bandwith and download the .torrent over here. Read our post about BitTorrent and firefox.
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Mongo56 just died.
BitTorrent’s biggest tracker just went offline. The fun was over, there was no money left and the DDos attacks didn’t help either.
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