A little late, but here’s our list of this weeks most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking
Movie
Seeds / Peers
1 (1)
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest
50,013
2 (2)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
48,725
3 (5)
V for Vendetta
48,706
4 (NEW)
RV
46,260
5 (3)
The Benchwarmers
43,995
6 (NEW)
Scary Movie 4
43,048
7 (4)
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals
42,221
8 (10)
The Break-Up
40,253
9 (NEW)
The Shaggy Dog
40,251
10 [...]
August 31st, 2006
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Here we go again, Yet another episode of our weekly podcast. Enjoy and drop a comment.
Our DNS servers went down last night, so Charlie wasn’t able to grab the latest comments. Sorry for that.
Welcome to TorrentPod, the official podcast of TorrentFreak.com. Join your host Charlie as he delves into this weeks latest news, and [...]
August 31st, 2006
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The Big Four record labels will do anything, anything, rather than work up front with their customers and with the independent innovators who are, so far, wholly and solely responsible for turning p2p into the primary communications and distribution media for the digital 21st century.
They’d rather sue them. But enormous and continuing opposition from the [...]
August 31st, 2006
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Tribler, the “social” BitTorrent client has just released a new version. The recommendation function has been optimized, along with other bugfixes and improvements.
Tribler is far from anonymous, and therefore probably not suited for sharing content you’re not supposed to share. However, the social aspect of Tribler has the potential to be helpful to sites like [...]
August 30th, 2006
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The traffic shaping battle continues. Allot Communications announced today that their traffic management device “NetEnforcer is able to detect, and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic.
August 29th, 2006
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On August 28, the Pirate Party of Sweden made their election program official. An introduction stating the ideas and ideology behind their program, the party stated their program for the election in a number of concrete points.
August 29th, 2006
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Snakebite will pimp your web-server into a torrent creator, and supports web-seeding. The snakebite project is one of the results of the successful Google Summer of Code program.
Here’s how it works
1. Install snakebite on your server (Debian only at this point)
2. Upload a file. and Snakebite will automatically create a .torrent for the file.
3. Share [...]
August 29th, 2006
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The UK anti-piracy lobby (BPI) demanded immediate action against CD pirates. Piracy has increased because the punishments are too mild according to the BPI.
And the BPI doesn’t like being “mild” at all. Earlier this month the BPI banned 12 year old from the “school kids music chart because her record label refuses to sue [...]
August 29th, 2006
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Slyck did its best to dig up as much dirt as possible about the AllPeers extension. The article raises valid questions, but perhaps it would have been a good idea to actually confront the guys from AllPeers with these questions.
Anyway, judge for yourself
Slyck article vs. Allpeers response
August 28th, 2006
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Game developer “introversion” is planning to release “faked” versions of their new games as soon as a pirated copy pops up. The faked versions will look like the real deal, but are in fact nothing more than a demo version.
Introversion states:
“You can’t stop peer-to-peer file sharing, so the best route to combat it is to [...]
August 28th, 2006
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We’ve all seen those download pages where a couple of http, ftp and BitTorrent mirrors are listed. We often just pick one of there, but wouldn’t it be great if you could use them all at the same time?
Metalinker has the solution. It works like this, the .metalink file tells your download manager where it [...]
August 26th, 2006
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