2007: BitTorrent Predictions

Written by Ernesto on December 31, 2006 

Happy New Year! Here’s a serious list of BitTorrent-related things that might happen in 2007. Seriously!

fireworks 2007Google launches BitTorrent search engine.
Google realizes that 33% of all searches on the Internet are BitTorrent related. In April they trade YouTube for Torrentz, and launch their own torrent search engine.

Pirates found own state.
The rise of Pirate parties throughout the world will continue. PP-international, the umbrella organization of the international Pirate parties founds an independent Pirate state.

RIAA sues unborn child.
The RIAA continues to screw whatever few customers they still have and announces a round of lawsuits against unborn children of suspected pirates. They later announce that every citizen of the newly founded Pirate state (deceased, alive, yet to be born or even conceived) owes them 99,999999 trillion US dollars.

MPAA assassinates TBP admin.
The MPAA continues its efforts to bring down The Pirate Bay. In May they successfully assassinate one of the TPB admins.

TPB admin resurrected 3 days later.
Similar to the TPB site, the admin is resurrected 3 days after his death. A new religion, Phoenixism is formed that hails him as their saviour.

Vista SP1 includes BitTorrent client.
In August 2007, Microsoft rolls out the first service pack for Vista. It includes uTorrent, which the company bought from BitTorrent Inc for as high a price as possible.

uTorrent’s successor vanishes.
Halite, which some people consider to be the successor of uTorrent, shrinks down to 37kb in March, 11kb in June, and vanishes just before the final 1.0 release in August.

Torrent sites continue to dominate the Internet.
Mininova, TPB and Torrentspy make it into the Alexa top 10. Seven torrent sites are listed among the 20 most popular sites on the Internet.

If you don't like torrents try MP3 Fiesta. They hold nearly 67,000 albums from nearly 17,000 artists. Prices are around the $0.10 mark for single tracks with full albums coming in at roughly $1.00. Tracks are available from 192kbps and they take major credit cards and PayPal

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18 Responses (Add yours or TrackBack)

1 Dec 31, 2006 at 18:13 by Matt Oakes

Quite a few of them are believable, but a few are a bit “out there”.

2 Dec 31, 2006 at 18:55 by Bilal

Nice lowdown of your predictions. Wouldn’t be supried if some of them come true ;)

3 Jan 01, 2007 at 01:04 by linuxgoober

Wouldn’t be a bit surprised… at least on most of them.

4 Jan 01, 2007 at 01:40 by Denis Bach

Thanks for a wonderful year of torrentfreak.com and hopefully many more with this wonderful blog. Enjoy the new year and good luck from germany.

5 Jan 01, 2007 at 03:52 by Hannes

Ernesto, you rock! Happy new year. :)

6 Jan 01, 2007 at 04:17 by JohnLai

Haha, I think you should include all ISP in the world using Deep Packet Inspection switch to throttle all bit torrent traffic including encypted connection and thus bit torrent is dead~(though I hate the ISP that did this)

7 Jan 01, 2007 at 09:00 by YourFriend

Here is one more. Google creates its own torrent search engine and becomes even popular then before.

8 Jan 01, 2007 at 15:37 by Saphid

I think you should also add. Apple includes bit torrent as a part of Mac OS 10.5

Still a great list.

9 Jan 01, 2007 at 17:41 by spyofchaos

That would be a hell of a year!!!
ARRRRGG maties! Yé old skirmishers deserve a gruesome death! Pirates own the Web!

10 Jan 01, 2007 at 17:47 by Pravin

Very nice to read all the posts here.

11 Jan 01, 2007 at 17:52 by HAppY NeW YeAR!!!

Neat!!! I wanna believe.

12 Jan 02, 2007 at 01:12 by plonk420

er, uTorrent is already at 1.0. it’s at 1.6 in fact…

13 Jan 02, 2007 at 03:03 by Steve

haha… pirates… I could totally dig my own state. And the admins from TPB could totally run the place. Write us up and open source declaration.. yeah… good times, good times. And we all know the admins at TPB are invincible, i mean thats just common sense. I believe all of those things on that list will happen, definately. Google should run a torrent search engine, It would be an amazing feat. So, yeah, nice list. Totally dig it. Keep it real ~Steve.

14 Jan 06, 2007 at 22:26 by FruitJuiceyRed

i wouldn’t be surprised if the one about google and torrentz, utorrent’s successor, or vista with utorrent come true. awesome list!

15 Apr 13, 2007 at 10:33 by Shanku

Google really does want everything don’t they… google video wasn’t enough so they went YouTube, now they want to trade it for Torrentz? What’s next? Google Earth for Digg.com?

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