Are you wondering when the new episodes of your favorite tv-show are airing? You might want to take a look at this tv-show calendar. Very useful tool. No more endless searching for torrents. The episodes will be available trough BitTorrent soon after the show is televised.
Firefox is a great torrent browser. But you have to extend firefox a little to get the best out of it. Here a some extensions I found useful, they make browsing and searching torrents even more fun.
And they give you a sweet anti-piracy lesson too. See for yourself: torretnspy.com
Do you hate the MPAA / RIAA and other company’s that spy on your download behavior? Are you tired downloading fake chunks of a file? Then it’s probably wise to cover your arse by installing peerguardian or protowall. This will keep (most of the) the bad guys out.
Based on Alexa’s traffic ratings torrentspy.com is the most popular torrent site of 2005. Torrentspy caught up with isohunt.com and torrentreactor.net around April.
A lot of legal issues surrounded BitTorrent in 2005. MPAA’s “war on BitTorrent” led to the death of two major torrentsites (torrentstop and lokitorrent) and several smaller sites in the beginning of 2005. But.. this was only the beginning…
The year 2005 started without Suprnova.org. Suprnova was taken offline by it’s admin on 19 december 2004, which left a huge gap that was initially filled by Lokitorrent. It did’t take very long though. Nearly a month after Suprnova died, Lokitorrent was being sued by the MPAA.
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