Archive for September, 2006

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 reader, [...]

Using BitTorrent Without a PC

Today there are many ways to leave your BitTorrent downloads on without actually having to keep your computer on too.

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 is that [...]

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 Isohunt.com [...]

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 want [...]

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 [...]

A Letter from the RIAA

This is a nice illustration of what a letter from the RIAA would probably look like if you cut out the legal terms and restrictions.

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 is [...]

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 where they [...]

Xtorrent public beta 1 reviewed

The much hyped Mac BitTorrent client from my friend David Watanabe is now available for download. We first covered it a week ago when it was announced. Even though it’s still in testing, we’ve decided to do a review of it.