Torrent search engine isoHunt has prematurely and permanently shutdown today. To prevent the ArchiveTeam from making a full backup of the site, isoHunt decided to close its doors two days earlier than planned. The site's founder says that he is honored by the backup initiative, but believes that there are…
An extensive study of the music sales of more than 350 tracks sampled on Girl Talk's album All Day suggests that "unauthorized" use actually boosts sales. While limited to one album, researcher and patent attorney Mike Schuster hopes that the study will help courts to understand that sampling can have…
Millions of gamers around the world rely on the hard work of professional reviewers in order to decide where to spend their hard-earned cash. Of course, opinions can swing both ways but these days it's apparently possible for companies to censor the ones they don't like, Over the weekend TotalBiscuit,…
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again, 'Man Of Steel' tops the chart this week, followed by 'Pacific Rim.' 'Despicable Me 2' completes the top three.
This week isoHunt announced its shutdown as part of a $110 million settlement with the MPAA. The decision is the end of an era for a BitTorrent icon that served millions of people for more than a decade. Recognizing this historical value, a group of rogue archivists have taken it…
Few torrent indexes reach a decade online but celebrating its tenth birthday today is veteran torrent site TorrentReactor. Fresh from a recent redesign the site has launched a beta version of a browser game that upon its official release in a few days time will allow BitTorrent users to win…
The new Obamacare website Healthcare.gov has had its fair share of problems over the past weeks, and the trouble continues. As it turns out, the Government website uses the open source software DataTables, which is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. While using open-source software is fine, the makers…
While in regular P2P file-sharing circles its generally accepted that individual users are sharing for love, not profit, there are some who see online piracy as a way to make money. Today TorrentFreak speaks with an extremely prolific pirate, who says he is making a decent living from uploading content…