Microsoft Claims Ownership of Linux Copyright
In a takedown notice sent by microsoft, investigator Mr. James Young asks MyBitTorrent to remove several linux and other non-Microsoft torrents.
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Tribler: Social BitTorrent Beta version Leaked
A private Beta version of Tribler, the new “social BitTorrent client” leaked to the public. The Beta version allows you to add friends and peers. Tribler also introduces “recommendations” based on your personal profile.
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The IT-Crowd episode 6, the hype continues
The IT-Crowd is a sitcom about Moss, Roy and Jen, the IT department of Reynholm Industries. The show was hyped all over the net even before the first episode aired.
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Isohunt and Torrentbox are determined to fight back
Yesterday the MPAA launched their new round of lawsuits against some of the bigger torrent sites. Today Isohunt says they’re teaming up with torrentbox and other p2p-site operators, willing to fight for the “right for technological progress” and the legality of the (torrent) search engine itself.
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Torrent sites under attack
The MPAA filed lawsuits against Torrentspy, Isohunt, Torrentbox, Niteshadow and Bthub. This could have a huge impact on the BitTorrent community since Torrentspy and Isohunt are two of the most frequently visited torrent sites.
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Tribler: A social based, BitTorrent powered p2p network
Tribler is a new p2p network based on BitTorrent. Tribler allows you to create groups, friends and it supports tags and profiles. Optionally you can import existing groups from programs like MSN and Gmail. Tribler is based on the sourcecode of the ABC torrent client.
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BitTorrent inc. supports free music and movie trailer downloads
Today BitTorrent Inc. announced that it will be supporting the 20th Annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Music and Media Conference and the 13th Annual SXSW Film Conference and Festival.
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What if the good guys win?
Copyright is the right to copy. You can share, reproduce and use everything as long as privacy is not violated. BitTorrent will be bigger than Microsoft, p2p networks will replace tv-broadcasting companies. You will be free.
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What if the bad guys win?
Think DRM multiplied by ten. Sharing is impossible, BitTorrent useless and forbidden. Every step you take is monitored, and even thinking about copyrighted material is not done.
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Mininova’s frontpage update & the French
Mininova updated their frontpage today. It now lists the ten latest torrents for each category. The old one listed all torrents added that day and had an average size of 150kb which resulted in 107GB daily traffic, and a slow page at the end of the day.
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Australian ISP’s wont throttle BitTorrent traffic
Good news for the Australian BitTorrent fans. Three of Australia’s largest internet providers say they are not limiting BitTorrent traffic on their networks (like others do) and have no immediate plans to impose restrictions on the BitTorrent and other p2p traffic.
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Tv-Show candidate will donate price money to The Piratebay
Petter Nilsson, a popular contestant on the a new Swedish Tv-Show Toppkandidaterna (Top candidates) announced that he will donate 6,500$ to The Piratebay if he wins.
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BitTorrent + Web 2.0, next generation TV
TIOTI, short for “tape it of the internet” is almost ready to go live. TIOTI combines great design, torrent tracking, favourites, recommendations, tagging, a little AJAX, and a lot more web 2.0 goodness. On the verge of what could be BitTorrent’s next revolution, TorrentFreak had the chance to talk to Paul Pod, one of the creative minds behind this project.
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Franz Ferdinand sympathizes with filesharers
Playboy interviewed Nicholas McCarthy and Alex Kapranos, two of Franz Ferdinand’s band members. The two seem to have a healthy and realistic view on filesharing.
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Torrent Client Settings Optimizer
Configuring your torrent client the right way is important to get the best speeds out of BitTorrent. This simple script calculates the optimal settings for your torrent client to maximize the speed of your BitTorrent downloads.
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Bitcomet 0.62 Released
A new release of the popular BitTorrent client Bitcomet just came out. This new version mainly consists of bugfixes.
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Preview of uTorrent’s Web-based Torrent manager
uTorrent is currently working on a web-based interface (WebUI). This allows you to monitor the torrents you are downloading from any pc in the world. With the web-monitor you can remotely start, stop, add, search torrents and more.
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BitTorrent teams up with British cable company
BitTorrent and NTL, a british cable company, are working together to offer “legal” high speed video downloads to the public.
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Torrentspy has to make up its mind
Torrentspy is flirting with movie and music studios in its quest for legitimacy. The idea to provide authorized music and movies is not new, but torrentspy is the first “torrentsite” that actively searches ways to provide authorized content to their users. However, if torrentspy want to succeed, it probably has to choose a side.
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BitTorrent to sue misusers of it’s name
Bram cohen, the creator of the BitTorrent protocol is planning to sue anyone misusing the BitTorrent name, and trademark. The trademark “BitTorrent” has become extremely popular over the last year, and as the popularity of BitTorrent grew, the “moneymakers” started to jump on the bandwagon.
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The geeks will always win!
In a reaction to the BitTorrent encryption article posted two days ago, futurist, trends and innovation expert Jim Carroll pointed me to a related keynote address he gave during the Society of Cable Telecom Engineers conference last month. Carrol warns the cable companies not to make the same mistake as the music industry did by [...]
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Opera integrates BitTorrent in their Browser
Opera is the first web browser that is going to support BitTorrent. The browser will also include the BitTorrent.com search function. Opera 9 TP2 will be available to the public soon (tuesday). However Opera emphasizes that the TP (technical preview) version is likely to contain some bugs and therefore Opera advises to use it for [...]
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Encrypting BitTorrent to take out traffic shapers
Over the past months more BitTorrent users noticed that their ISP is killing all BitTorrent traffic . ISP’s like Rogers are using bit-shaping applications to throttle the traffic that is generated by BitTorrent.
But, at the same time two of the most popular BitTorrent clients are working together to implement header and message stream encryption in order to take out these traffic shapers. -
Speed up your torrents II
BitTorrent is the best tool for sharing files but you need to configure your client and your network the right way to get the best out of it. I will list some tips, tricks and guidelines in addition to the “speed up your torrents” and the “speed up bitcomet and uTorrent” posts.
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Donate?
Through year and day donating is intertwined with the torrent community. Torrent sites tend to consume a lot of bandwidth, and bandwdith costs money so someone has to pay. But should we donate? and to which site?
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Pirate shop
The Piratebay just opened their “pirate shop”. The pirate shop has shirts, scarves clocks and other pirate themed stuff available for the hardcore pirates among us.
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uTorrent skins
uTorrent recently updated their website. The look is slightly different and they added a skin section for those people who want to customize uTorrent. And for the rss-freaks there’s an extensive rss-tutorial. uTorrent recently updated their website. The look is slightly different and they added a skin section for those people who want to customize [...]
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