BitTorrent is believed to be one of the fairest P2P protocols. The built in tit-for-tat mechanism makes sure that you get what you give. But there are several ways to cheat and exploit BitTorrent in order to increase your download speed.
But how vulnerable is BitTorrent?
Nikitas Liogkas, Robert Nelson, Eddie Kohler, Lixia Zhang from the [...]
I will be spending the next 10 days on a deserted island, far away from any connection to the www. I’ve scheduled a couple of posts so there will be “a little action” while I’m gone.
Hang in there, I will be back.
Ernesto.
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update 25-05
still on vacation. I rushed some posts from a very, very slow internet [...]
Trojan/Erazer-A is a new trojan that spreads through P2P networks. Apart from infecting your pc with malware and disabling anti-virus applications, it also actively deletes music, video’s and pictures from “shared folders’, used by p2p applications.
TIOTI, short for “tape it off the internet”, is about to enter the BETA stage. The first invites will be sent on May 25. We have a preview of some of the TIOTI goodness. Sign up for invites now.
What is TIOTI?
It’s a revolutionary approach to socialize and optimize your TV-torrent experience. TIOTI combines great design, [...]
Burger King and Myspace join forces. They will start selling episodes of the popular TV-Show “24″. The first episodes of season 1 and 5 will be for free, just to warm the customers up, the other episodes will cost for $1.99 per download.
They will advertise with the popular slogan: “Have it your way”. [...]
John Naughton wrote a great column about the announced cooperation between Warner and BitTorrent earlier this week. It’s a good thing that Hollywood is embracing BitTorrent, but not like this.
The great thing about BitTorrent is that it has really important legitimate uses – ones that do not infringe copyright. If you want to distribute copies [...]
A couple of weeks ago we reported that BitTorrent.org is still indexing a lot of copyrighted material. Although they made a deal with the MPAA to ban illegal content, their policies do not differ from sites like Mininova or Torrentspy.
BitTorrent spokeswoman Lily Lin confirmed to TorrentFreak
Our MPAA arrangement is strictly about taking down links [...]
The Piratebay is having some issues with their site at the moment. The tracker is unreachable at times, and the seed / leech info is not showing.
The solution is:
1. Be patient, and wait till the tracker connects.
2. Don’t pay attention to the seed / leech info, just try the torrent to be sure.
Meet Lucky and Flo, the MPAA’s DVD sniffing dogs. They can’t tell if the DVD’s are illegal (yet), but they do smell if packages contain DVD’s. The two black Labradors are the newest tool in the MPAA’s rather unsuccesful “war on piracy”.
Snarf-it.org, the torrent site built on the remains of the Suprnovaforums is back. New owner, same torrents.
snarf-it.org is now back online with it’s 300k torrent database and clean easy to use interface, no popups or sell out ads there. That however is the last time you will see any information from ourselves promoting it as [...]
Ktorrent, a popular BitTorrent client for Linux now supports encryption. This makes Ktorrent the first alternative to Azureus for Linux users who suffer from throttling ISP’s.
Protocol header encryption makes it harder for traffic shaping devices to recognize BitTorrent traffic, and should recover your bandwidth.
Get Ktorrent over here.
