TorrentFreak

Slyck interviewed Dean Garfield, the Vice President and Director of Legal Affairs of the MPAA.

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
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Support managers
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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.

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.

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.

Ever wanted to own your very own torrent website, this is your chance. TheTorrentNetwork.org is being sold on Ebay.

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).

At least.. Almost…

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.

uTorrent is a highly customizable torrent client which allows you to add your favorite torrentsites to search.

Free TV-Shows are getting more popular and are expected to become the next “revolution” on the internet.