Archive for November, 2006

Interview with the Founder of Opensubtitles

Do you want a subtitle with that torrent? Then Opensubtitles.org is probably the place to be. The website is only a couple of months old, but already one of the most popular subtitle resources.

TorrentPod Episode 15

Another episode of the official TorrentFreak podcast!… Enjoy..

BitTorrent Partners with TV and Movie Companies

BitTorrent Inc just announced that they have teamed up with several TV and movie companies. The new list of partners includes 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks (Comedy Central, MTV etc.), Palm Pictures and Starz Media.

MPAA satire is just too realistic

There are always people who find it hard to distinguish between sarcastic and real stories. And it is even harder if the story is about the MPAA. Why? Well, it’s just too realistic, they do crazy things all the time.

Online TV on the Rise

A recent study conducted for the BBC shows that watching TV “online” is on the rise, and threatening the popularity of old fashioned TV watching.

How BitTorrent Could Help Microsoft

Microsoft is a large corporation, and most large corporations distrust everything to do with filesharing. What they don’t realise is how much they stand to gain from from filesharing networks, in paticular, BitTorrent.

Oversized Video Clips at BitTorrent.com

We all know that BitTorrent is probably the best way to transfer large files, but this doesn’t mean that one should increase the filesize because they distribute something over BitTorrent.

BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk47)

This week’s most popular movie downloads on BitTorrent.

The Last Man on Earth: Free and Legal on BitTorrent

“The Last Man on Earth” is a true movie classic based on the famous novel “I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson. The movie was released back in 1964, and has fallen in the public domain, so you’re free to download and share it.

Comparing Sharing Behavior in BitTorrent Communities

Just as many social bookmarking sites are said to be run by a small group of active users, the same seems to hold for BitTorrent communities where 10% of the users upload as much as the rest of the 90% put together.

Wikipedia CD Distributed over BitTorrent

A “Wikipedia CD” has been made available for download on BitTorrent.com. The CD comprises of over 2500 hand-picked educational articles aimed at helping schools enhance their curriculum and children learn.