Torrentz.com, the largest and fastest BitTorrent meta-search engine has shut down Torrent'Em for alleged copyright infringement. It turns out that the flash based search engine we wrote about a few days ago, was using Torrentz' data, without permission.
The top 10 most downloaded DVDrips on BitTorrent, "The Assassination of Jesse James" tops the chart this week.
The uTorrent development team just released 1.7.7 stable. The new version is the latest 1.7 release, and fixes the vulnerability that allowed attackers to remotely crash the BitTorrent client.
Today, The Pirate Bay reached another milestone, as they broke the 1 million torrents and 10 million peers barrier. The largest BitTorrent tracker just keeps growing and growing, and there is no sign that this will be put to a halt soon.
Anonymous, a small group of scriptkiddies and high-level hackers started a war against the Church of Scientology this week. TorrentFreak managed to get an exclusive Q&A with the controversial group, in which they ask Pirates to join their fight.
The IFPI recently published their latest digital music report. Amongst their claims "illegal downloading" outperforms legal downloading by a ratio of 20:1, and that because of this, the recording industry has lost US$3.7 billion. Picking apart these ideas reveal that they may be very misleading.
Torrent'Em is a unique BitTorrent meta-search engine because it is coded entirely in Flash, something i've never seen before. The site indexes several public BitTorrent sites and the search results are presented in a clean and flashy way.
The author of a bizarre virus which threatened to kill file-sharers has been arrested in Japan. Has he been arrested for making death threats? No! For writing the virus? No! This is the 21st century. He's been arrested for copyright infringement, of course.