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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.

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.

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.

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.

A new release of the popular BitTorrent client Bitcomet just came out. This new version mainly consists of bugfixes.

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.

BitTorrent and NTL, a british cable company, are working together to offer “legal” high speed video downloads to the public.

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.

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.

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 “going [...]

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 [...]