Archive for October, 2006

TorrentPod Episode 10

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 [...]

A “Napster Moment” for TV Downloads

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.

P2P usage going down in Canada

The latest survey conducted for the Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC) is showing a major decrease in filesharing activity in Canada.

Music is not a loaf of bread, it can’t be “stolen”

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.

BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk42)

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 [...]

Wiredset Launches BitTorrent Charts

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, [...]

What if book publishers started to sue libraries?

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.

BitTorrent Beyond the PC

BitTorrent Inc. officially announced that they are going to embed BitTorrent software into digital home products beyond the PC.

A Digg-like site for torrents

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 [...]

Don’t be a Douche… Stop Piracy

Here’s some advise from rock star / actor Jack Black.
Hilarious.

Sorry Blockbuster, But I love P2P

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.