I discovered a uTorrent bug yesterday, a major one. Not in the application itself but on the post-download page. I’m no entomologist but I’m pretty certain this qualifies as a bug. Why and how it’s supposed to contribute to uTorrent’s image escapes me though. Personally I don’t like to see…
The uTorrent development team officially released version 3.0 of their popular application today. The milestone release adds many new features including torrent ratings, comments, streaming, and drag-and-drop sharing. One of the main goals is to appeal more to novice BitTorrent users, who often drop out after using uTorrent only once…
A partnership between the RIAA, MPAA and the major ISPs, which would see the latter taking action against infringing customers, has been confirmed. If final agreement is reached - a point believed to be as close as next month - ISPs including AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon will begin taking increasingly…
Two weeks ago raids and arrests in several European countries took out several prominent websites. Aside from the main target, movie streaming links portal Kino.to, the raids also affected several file-hosting sites including Duckload.com. Despite taking a big hit Duckload is not giving up. Instead, the site has respawned with…
At the end of January 2011, the U.S. authorities kicked off yet another round of domain seizures, this time against site connected with sports streaming. This third round of action in ‘Operation in Our Sites’ took control of the domains of Rojadirecta, one of Spain’s most popular sites. Last week…
Two of the UK’s largest Internet service providers have been denied permission to appeal against their earlier failed legal action which challenged the Digital Economy Act. BT and TalkTalk had attempted to overturn a high court review of the legislation at the Court of Appeal. On Monday, Judge Sir Richard…
Censorship, gotta love it. Apparently Kaspersky’s parental police thinks TorrentFreak is illegal software. Strange, especially since actual BitTorrent software (which isn’t illegal either) such as uTorrent can be accessed just fine. Tip: https://torrentfreak.com
According to a disclosure report, the MPAA spent $400,000 lobbying a wide range of US government departments in the first quarter of 2011 including the FBI, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the Vice President's Office. Issues on the table include so-called "rogue sites" including RapidShare, streaming,…