Here’s Episode 10 of the official TorrentFreak podcast! A lot of good stuff this time…
Welcome to TorrentPod, the official pod/net/web- cast of TorrentFreak.com.
Enjoy, and feel free to leave a (audio) comment if you have something to say to Charlie, or if you want to comment on the show in general. There’s more good stuff [...]
October 26th, 2006
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The “Tape it off the Internet” project is currently in the final stages of the closed Beta program. TIOTI might very well be a realistic representation of what the future of TV will look like.
October 25th, 2006
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The latest survey conducted for the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) is showing a major decrease in filesharing activity in Canada.
October 25th, 2006
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Singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy is part of the growing group of artists that understands that there’s more to music than selling pieces of plastic, and suing your fans.
October 24th, 2006
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This week’s most popular movie downloads on BitTorrent.
Ranking
Movie
Seeds / Peers
1 (1)
Open Season
48,721
2 (-)
X-Men: The Last Stand
47,648
3 (-)
The Grudge 2
47,504
4 (2)
Jackass 2
46,101
5 (3)
The Departed
42,979
6 (5)
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
41,611
7 (6)
The Lake House
41,330
8 (9)
Fearless
39,390
9 (-)
Thank You for Smoking
39,327
10 (-)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
38,871
The data is collected by Big Champagne, the numbers of seeds and [...]
October 24th, 2006
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Wiredset just launched their BitTorrent Charts service. They currently index more than 30,000 trackers and over 200 BitTorrent index sites. The charts are updated on a daily basis and include the 50 most popular TV, Anime, Video, music, Software, and Game torrents.
At first glance the data seems to be pretty accurate are not very accurate, [...]
October 23rd, 2006
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In the recent past we’ve seen the record and movie industry sue everyone from little girls and soccer moms to college kids for illegal file-sharing. Imagine what would happen if book publishers started to take on public libraries.
October 23rd, 2006
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BitTorrent Inc. officially announced that they are going to embed BitTorrent software into digital home products beyond the PC.
October 23rd, 2006
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Social news has been a massive phenomenon with tens of millions of people using sites like Digg, Slashdot, reddit and Newsvine on a regular basis.
The concept of voting for stories or digging stories quickly spilled into other areas like software (iusethis.com) and Creative Commons music (CC Hits).
Now, a social site for torrents has come [...]
October 22nd, 2006
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Here’s some advise from rock star / actor Jack Black.
Hilarious.
October 22nd, 2006
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Here’s a message to Blockbuster, one of the largest chains of movie rental stores in the world. It’s an original way to cancel you membership.
October 22nd, 2006
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