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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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