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September2006

  • P2P Art

    Mixed media artist and filmmaker Anders Weberg created a piece of P2P art. The experimental movie “Filter” is about by the emotional rollercoaster he went through when his son almost died.

  • Brein Scares a Couple More P2P Hobbyists

    The Dutch Anti-Piracy organization BREIN has successfully “taken down” 19 filesharing websites. They now reached a total of 103 this year. Among their new trophies are at least two BitTorrent sites; torrentsplanet.com and easytorrent.eu.

  • Dreamhost Back to Blocking BitTorrent?

    It turns out that the popular hosting company Dreamhost is shutting down any BitTorrent trackers hosted on its servers. In a letter to a customer, a representative of Dreamhost said “BitTorrent is strictly forbidden, both as a client and as a server right now.”

  • BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk38)

    This weeks most popular BitTorrent movie downloads. Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers 1 (2) Scary Movie 4 48,837 2 (4) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 47,859 3 (1) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 47,800 4 (5) Beerfest 45,758 5 (8) Final Destination 3 42,985 6 (3) RV 41,713 7 (7) Poseidon [...]

  • Solid State to Launch Hybrid BitTorrent Video Streaming Service

    Solid State, a digital media delivery company has developed an advanced streaming technology based on the BitTorrent protocol. The company presented their peer-assisted streaming technology at the DEMOfall 2006 conference in San Diego. Technologies like this could save popular streaming websites like YouTube or Google Video a lot of money. It is estimated that YouTube [...]

  • Pirate Targeted Advertising

    McDonald’s targets Pirates: “until you can illegally download food, this is your best deal… the mcdonalds dollar menu”. McDonald’s targets Pirates: “until you can illegally download food, this is your best deal… the mcdonalds dollar menu”.

  • A Swarm of Angels: P2P Powered Film Model

    A Swarm of Angels is a project that aims to create the first community driven film. The Film will be written, funded and distributed over the Internet. The plan is to gather a group of 50.000 people who each contribute £25 ($47.5) to join the project. The initiator Matt Hanson is an award-winning filmmaker and [...]

  • Zinoku: BitTorrent Site Dedicated to Magazines

    Zinoku offers an extensive collection of Magazines. The site lists magazines covering all kinds of topics, including Science, Maxim, FHM, PC Magazine, Newsweek, Penthouse and Playboy It’s not really a big surprise, but as expected, the adult themed magazines are the most popular. All magazine downloads are packaged in some kind of a custom magazine [...]

  • BitTorrent Inc Foresees a Future Without DRM

    BitTorrent Inc. is opening it’s online media store within a couple of months. Although they will use DRM (digital rights management) in the early stages, they predict that add supported content will eventually win from DRM, not only in BitTorrent’s store Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent told IDG News Service: The bottom line [...]

  • Podtropolis is Back

    The popular Ipod torrent site Podtropolis is back. Podtropolis was forced to close its doors in July 2006, because they were unable to pay the server bills. Podtropolis asked for donations several times, but it was not enough to keep the site in the air. A couple of weeks later Gary Fung, the owner of [...]

  • Indie Bands on BitTorrent.com

    BitTorrent is teaming up with indie-labels and bands. A short video about Death Cab for Cutie, songs and movies from The Postal Service and The Shins, and more good stuff. Death Cab for Cutie uploaded an exclusive electronic press kit (video) that provides an insightful look into the personalities of the band members and the [...]

  • TorrentPod Episode 6

    Episode 6 already of the official TorrentFreak podcast! Enjoy the show and drop a comment. Welcome to TorrentPod, the official podcast of TorrentFreak.com. Join your host Charlie as he delves into this weeks latest news. Enjoy, and feel free to leave a (audio) comment if you have something to say to Charlie, or if you [...]

  • Swedish Elections: The Pirate Party Sails On

    The Swedish Election turned out to be a litlle disappointing for The Pirate Party. However, it was the first time the Ship was in the “open water”, but definitely not the last. This Swedish election has been special in many ways. It was if though the parliamentary parties and the media outlets of Sweden decided [...]

  • Azureus Adds Featured Content

    Azureus added a searchable database of featured content to their website. This new feature is likely to be a part of the shift towards implementing a (commercial) content layer. The featured content page includes several types of free and legal media, ranging from the latest Rocketboom episodes to Rob Costlow’s discography. Unfortunately, the featured content [...]

  • Snarf-it Disappeared, Servers Seized?

    The popular BitTorrent site Snarf-it.org is down at the moment. Apparently some incompetent people at the datacentre messed up the server. At Snarf-it.org we read this funny coverstory: Where is Snarf-It? Your guess is as good as ours, at some point last night our database servers disappeared, and we really mean disappeared. The data centre [...]

  • uTorrent WebUI now Public

    uTorrent’s web-based interface (WebUI) just entered the public BETA stage. The WebUI allows you to monitor your torrents from any pc in the world. With the web-monitor you can remotely start, stop, add, search torrents and more. Here’s a screenshot, more screenshots can be found over here. The WebUI files are here. uTorrent’s web-based interface [...]

  • BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk37)

    Check out this weeks most popular BitTorrent movie downloads. Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers 1 (1) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 49,401 2 (4) Scary Movie 4 48,143 3 (2) RV 48,094 4 (3) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 46,066 5 (6) Beerfest 43,379 6 (8) Monster House 42,218 7 (NEW) [...]

  • BitTorrent Video Store Coming Soon

    The long awaited BitTorrent Video store will be launched by the end of this year. The video store will offer full-length and short movies, TV-shows, concerts, and other media. BitTorrent Inc already signed deals with Warner Bros and other movie distributors including Hart Sharp, Koch, Egami, The Orchard. BitTorrent will also include “foreign” content from [...]

  • How to run uTorrent in Mac OS X

    As a x-Windows guy and an ardent BitTorrenter I can confidently say that uTorrent is one of the best BitTorrent clients available for Windows 95 through Vista. It’s lean, takes up very little memory and doesn’t need to be installed, you can even run it off a USB pen drive. It also offers all the important features like Selective Downloading, Universal Plug ‘n’ Play Support, Super Seeding Mode and RSS Feeds Subscription. Soon we will also be able to use uTorrent via a web-interface.

  • TorrentPod Episode 5

    Episode 5 of our weekly podcast. Enjoy the show and drop a comment. Welcome to TorrentPod, the official podcast of TorrentFreak.com. Join your host Charlie as he delves into this weeks latest news, and Charlie’s rambles on about Filesharing (part 2). Enjoy, and feel free to leave a (audio) comment if you have something to [...]

  • How BitTorrent Clients Slow Down Windows

    In general BitTorrent clients are not the most “resource using” applications. But how do they actually affect, and slow down Windows? Thepcspy compared the three most popular BitTorrent clients. And it seems that uTorrent is indeed entitled to be called “the lightweight client”. The mean boot time of Azureus, Bitcomet and uTorrent were compared on [...]

  • eDonkey Just Died

    eDonkey has finally and unarguably lined up with other former independent commercial p2p companies which are now working with the RIAA. As we write this, “The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available,” says the site. If you steal music or movies, you are breaking the law. Courts around the world – including the United States [...]

  • Share Torrents on a Blog or Forum

    Fenopy.com is the leading BitTorrent site when it comes to implementing innovative features. Today Fenopy added a torrent-share feature. It’s an easy way to share torrents on your blog or forum, just copy and paste the link code and you’re done. If you post the piece of code in a blogpost it will automatically generate [...]

  • Xtorrent: Taking BitTorrent to another Level?

    Xtorrent is a new BitTorrent client for Mac OSX. Unlike other BitTorrent clients, Xtorrent allows you to browse, download and search for torrents without using a web browser. I stumbled upon some prerelease screenshots of Xtorrent over at phillryu. It is unsure if the application will be free, and if not, how much it will [...]

  • Yet Another Pirate Party

    The German Pirate Party was founded yesterday in Berlin. The goals of the German Pirate Party are similar to those of their sister parties: decriminalizing filesharing, copyright reform, sensible patents, and privacy protection, to name a few.

  • qBitTorrent: The ultimate Linux BitTorrent Client

    qTorrent is a lightweight, but feature rich BitTorrent client for Linux. The latest release includes Audio/Video File previewing. Other features are: UPnP port mapping Peer exchange Prioritization Selective Downloading Search engine Torrent creator Ip Filter qBitTorrent is based on the Libtorrent library and is written in C++. Here is a screenshot. You can download qBitTorrent [...]

  • BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk36)

    Finally on time this week. Unfortunately the pirates lost the no1 spot. Check out this weeks most popular BitTorrent movie downloads. Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers 1 (2) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 49,582 2 (3) RV 48,576 3 (1) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 48,551 4 (4) Scary Movie 4 [...]

  • Emule Fights Throttling ISP’s

    The eMule team has released a new version of eMule, which supports protocol obfuscation, probably inspired by the success of encryption in several BitTorrent clients. This feature, which causes eMule’s communication to appear as random data and makes it more difficult for ISP’s to throttle eMule users. The new version has the option of only [...]

  • 5 Movie Classics: Free and Legal on BitTorrent

    Nosferatu, The Last Man On Earth, House on Haunted Hill, Detour, and The Little shop of Horrors are 5 movie classics that are in the public domain. Free to download, free to share, free of DRM. The movies are hosted by publicdomaintorrents, the great resource for movie addicts we discussed earlier. Noseferatu (1922) Vampire Count [...]

  • TV Downloading On The Rise

    Downloading TV shows has become increasingly popular over the past year. A recent study by Ipsos shows that 5% of all Americans downloaded a TV show, compared to 2% last year.

  • Interview With the Developer of BitRocket

    We e-mailed Julian Cain, the developer of BitRocket and he was gracious enough to set aside some time to talk to TorrentFreak about his Mac BitTorrent client that’s been making headlines over the last few days. The interview: TorrentFreak: What made you decide to develop BitRocket? Julian: I wanted to develop a BitTorrent client for [...]

  • Do not pay for BitTorrent

    This might sound pretty obvious to the most of you, but there are still quite a lot of people who are tricked to pay for free software like uTorrent, BitTorrent Mainline, and Azureus. Most of them are lured by misleading advertisement, and flashy banners. They end up paying $3-$30 for a completely free application. In [...]

  • TorrentPod Episode 4

    Still going strong, here’s episode 4 of our weekly podcast. Enjoy the show and drop a comment. Welcome to TorrentPod, the official podcast of TorrentFreak.com. Join your host Charlie as he delves into this weeks latest news, and Charlie’s rambles on about Filesharing. Enjoy, and feel free to leave a (audio) comment if you have [...]

  • BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk35)

    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 50,183 2 (2) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 49,296 3 (4) RV 49,147 4 (6) Scary Movie 4 46,925 5 (3) V for Vendetta 44,268 6 (5) The [...]

  • Bitrocket: New OSX BitTorrent Client

    Earlier this week we reviewed BitTorrent clients for Mac OSX. This probably inspired the developer af Bitrocket, to launch this new BitTorrent client’ Based on the feature list it looks like Bitrocket could give the existing BitTorrent clients some tough competition. Bitrocket supports essential features like: DHT: Support for “trackerless” torrents. DHT keeps the torrent [...]

  • Torrentspy’s New Features are Live

    After a couple of weeks of finetuning, and months of hard work, Torrentspy.com finally launched their new features. An overview of the new stuff can be found over here. The redesign was planned to go live earlier this month, but better late than never. The new features add a social layer to torrentspy, with a [...]

  • uTorrent portable

    A portable version of uTorrent may come in handy when you’re with friends, at school, or at work. It will fit perfectly on every usb-stick, Ipod, mobile phone, or any other device that is recognized a “removable disk”.

  • Mac BitTorrent Clients Reviewed

    The number of user-friendly, appealing BitTorrent clients available for the platform are very few in comparison to the number of those available for Windows.

    In this article we will highlight the most popular Mac BitTorrent applications and compare their features.

  • BitTorrent Inc expands server park

    BitTorrent Inc upgraded their serverpark from 3 server racks to a 600-square- foot server cage, of roughly 28 racks. And it’s only the beginning. The growth is a result of BitTorrent’s deals with companies like Warner, Chinese TV and Movie companies, and other movie companies. BitTorrent is also planning to open their very own video [...]

  • UPC hands over filesharers name to BREIN

    The Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN collected the name of one of the bigger “ulpoaders” at the busted BitTorrent site “dikkedonder”. This is the outcome of a legal struggle between the Dutch ISP UPC and the anti-piracy lobby BREIN. Last week the judge ruled that UPC had to hand over the “private” customer information because: 1. [...]

  • Russia toughens Piracy laws

    Amendments, aimed to crack down digital pirates in Russia were taken into effect today. The new additions make it illegal to share copyrighted material online. Until today there was no law in Russia that protected copyright holders from internet piracy. The new law allows sentences up to 5 years in prison, equaling online piracy with [...]

  • BTGuard - BitTorrent Anonymously

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