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February2006

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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 [...]

  • BTGuard - BitTorrent Anonymously

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