Nasa is using BitTorrent for a while now. Recently however, they started a new project called “visible earth”. This massive image library offers several high quality pictures, and NASA is using BitTorrent to distribute these images. So if you ever wanted to download a 2.9GB pic, here’s your chance.
Some big players in “the scene” have been eliminated yesterday during a big raid coordinated by a German anti-piracy federation (GVU). The raids took place in Germany, Holland, Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic.
If you are lucky enough to have an Ipod video than the following links might grab your interest.
Ever wanted to hang out with the guys from the Piratebay? Do you have a lot of money? Well this is your chance. There’s an auction on Ebay where you can bid on an evening with the Piratebay crew.
Sounds like a great combo, and it is. Jamendo is a new model that allows artists to promote and publish their music. For the public it’s a great place to discover, listen and download new music.
The popular TV show “the office” just got the highest rating ever among adults 18 to 49. The boost in popularity is mainly caused by the availability of iPod downloads. So sharing works, nothing new. People like to watch their favorite show whenever they want to. But what if we add BitTorrent?
Tioti is announcing some new info on their “tape it off the internet” project. Tioti is combining BitTorrent, great design, a social network and tagging to create a community for sharing tv-torrents.
BitTorrent is a file-sharing protocol that lets you download content directly from other groups of people. Unlike HTTP, the download speeds vary, because you aren’t receiving data from a dedicated server, instead you’re downloading from other users’ computers.
Update: Piratebay taken Down by Swedish Police
Meet ted, yet another way to automatically download the latest tv-torrents. Ted keeps you up-to-date by checking rss feeds of your favorite BitTorrent site for new episodes of your favorite shows. Other ways to manage your tv-torrents are by using gmail, thunderbird or tvtad.
The oscars are coming. Academy members (or/and other people) tapped in to the screener-distribution chain and posted torrents of copies of Syriana, Lord of War, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, North Country, and Memoirs of a Geisha, complete with “for your consideration” notices and studio IDs (link).
A lot of uTorrent posts lately. This time a little trick to make the search box disappear. Some people love the search box and add some extra sites to it, others hate it. Here’s what you need to do if you want to get rid of it.
Oink.me.uk is having some serious problems with their server. Both the site and the tracker are offline for a least a day.
They try to get it fixed as soon as possible, but data will be lost. The user data and the torrents are gone and they are forced to upload some older backups. The user data backup is quite recent, however the torrent backup is from December 30th.
Every month TorrentFreak will put the best BitTorrent sites in the spotlights.
Slyck has a post on the myths surrounding filesharing
Tired of your uTorrent toolbar? Looking for a change? Download this custom toolbar to edit the look of uTorrent. Not really a drastic change, but it looks great.
MPAA Tracker:66.172.60.1-66.172.60.255
MPAA Tracker:66.177.58.1-66.177.58.255
MPAA Tracker:66.180.205.1-66.180.205.255
MPAA Tracker:209.204.61.1-209.204.61.255
MPAA Tracker:216.151.155.1-216.151.155.255
UPDATE: Thanks to all our (m-ook) readers and the readers on Digg and other blogs (TorrentFreak) for your support!
uTorrent just released version 1.4. uTorrent has all the advanced feature you need, but uses less cpu and memory.
A new version of the popular BitTorrent client Bitcomet was just released. The new release doesn’t ignore the “private flag” like version 0.60 did.
Peermind “beta” just launched. Peermind registers and analyzes p2p traffic on the internet. They provide weekly top 10/25 lists of the most downloaded songs, games and software on various p2p networks.
During the last year a lot of people discovered the great opportunities that p2p technologies like BitTorrent have. Every day more people discover how convenient it can be to download and watch your favorite TV shows.
Are you wondering when the new episodes of your favorite tv-show are airing? You might want to take a look at this tv-show calendar. Very useful tool. No more endless searching for torrents. The episodes will be available trough BitTorrent soon after the show is televised.
Firefox is a great torrent browser. But you have to extend firefox a little to get the best out of it. Here a some extensions I found useful, they make browsing and searching torrents even more fun.
And they give you a sweet anti-piracy lesson too. See for yourself: torretnspy.com
Do you hate the MPAA / RIAA and other company’s that spy on your download behavior? Are you tired downloading fake chunks of a file? Then it’s probably wise to cover your arse by installing peerguardian or protowall. This will keep (most of the) the bad guys out.
Dylan Avery, the director of the 9/11 documentary “loose change” is commenting on his movie’s torrent on torrentspy.
SoftwareFor.org just released a new version of their free software package “Software for Starving Students”. This CD comes with a lot of free software and a “user friendly installer“. Always nice to have around.
So where do we go from here? What’s the next step, what’s hot and what will 2006 bring to the BitTorrent community? More rss? AJAX? a little more web 2.0? Great Design?
Based on Alexa’s traffic ratings torrentspy.com is the most popular torrent site of 2005. Torrentspy caught up with isohunt.com and torrentreactor.net around April.
Two thing that shook up the BitTorrent community in 2005 (clientwise). First the intoduction of so called “trackerless torrents”. Second: uTorrent, a lightweight torrent client with a lot of features.
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