Comments on: Ridiculously Useless Bittorrent Software

By: Torrent Seach

Torrent Seach — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:20:00 +0000

I am using http://www.torrentoolbar.comto search of Torrents and i love it,

By: Ridiculously Useless Bittorrent Software at IDTorrent Blog

Ridiculously Useless Bittorrent Software at IDTorrent Blog — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:34:55 +0000

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By: boot2ben

boot2ben — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:55:27 +0000

f-ing piss wipes…Î¼Torrent rules

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:48:47 +0000

Ridiculously Useless Bittorrent Software…

Every now and again, a software release comes out for BitTorrent that is truly revolutionary and revered. And other times, the source code should just be reduced back down to those ones and zeroes as quickly as possible. Here is a rundown of some of th…

By: yes

yes — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:18:25 +0000

[quote comment="323441"]what happened to worst tracker? what.cd[/quote]

i agree. i was banned for saying that the site being less than half functional at any given time was embarasssing and was ruining the reputation of the site (since all the bug report threads are answered with with “wait a few months for gazelle!”). i got a friend to send me the rules and that definitely wasn’t mentioned as even a warnable offense…
its amateur hour every hour of the day over at what.cd.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:28:05 +0000

what happened to worst tracker? what.cd

By: serrebi

serrebi — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:35:15 +0000

um… torrenttopia is a few years old. It worked great in 2005 the last time it was updated. Seriusly, do some research.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:03:47 +0000

My first thought: Please, oh another article about Shareaza.

By: Fire3

Fire3 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:41:54 +0000

They Say: “The ‘So Called – TROJAN’ reported in PKTv0.1(beta) Was NOT! I Repeat NOT put in there on purpose to attempt to hack or screw anyone over.”

They also say:
“AV scanners have been reported to pick up a php remote backdoor trojan, this is happening because of some source code i took from a different script, the script was in fact a backdoor trojan but was edited to be used as a base for the admin in PKTorrents.”

For some reason, backdoor code edited to be a useful part of some prog doesn’t convince me… :P

By: ComeonComCast

ComeonComCast — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:59:00 +0000

*does chicken dance*
Viva La PiratByran Utorrenten

By: slim

slim — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:28:37 +0000

hahaha lol

By: santoscrew

santoscrew — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:11:47 +0000

i only want to know who tested all those things.

By: Zeph

Zeph — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:13:56 +0000

Anyone has experiences w/ tribler? To me appealed, that it is opensource, on the other hand, the whole concept that anyone can see what you have downloaded and what you are sharing seems to me bit dangerous and contraproductive. Opinions?

By: Ken Earwig

Ken Earwig — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:44:42 +0000

Forgot to mention. Though it may not contain any malware, maybe the options allow you to add some to it.

By: Ken Earwig

Ken Earwig — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:42:19 +0000

I like the Isohunt toolbar which actually works, plus it’s loaded with other features, and apparently doesn’t contain any adware or spyware, though you may have a different view. The worst thing is that I find it impossible to remove any added features, without disabling the whole toolbar. Plus a spyware ap tells me that part of it may be adware, though it says “low risk”.

By: Ken Earwig

Ken Earwig — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:26:47 +0000

Slow news is good news. Besides I’m so glad the trojan wasn’t deliberate. That makes everything ok. Not that I’ve heard of any of those. If you really want to screw up your browsers, install ICQ. Toolbars and hijacking to the max. If you refuse it, the whole installation cancels, except for all the malware.

By: kidTHATthinks

kidTHATthinks — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:09:45 +0000

[quote comment="322796"]and if anyone would like azureus v2.5 install file y…..[/quote]

i know one site where you can share it with everyone. http://www.thepiratebay.org

“Im please to announce that work on PKTorrentsV0.3(alpha) has begun.” cant wait :D

By: man

man — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:45:07 +0000

[quote comment="322708"]Someone’s been posting this huge list of trackers on digg comments. Turns out they’re pretty useful and the biggest list of this kind I’ve seen yet:
http://singularweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/list-of-public-and-private-bittorrent.html

Anyone know any other lists like this?[/quote]

this list was created after oink went down. almost every torrent site has a thread with the exact list in it stickied at the top so people stop posting it over and over and over.
also, great to see it on digg. that makes it a lot easier for the bpi/ifpi/**aa to pick another random site to shut down.

By: gluestickchaos

gluestickchaos — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:40:11 +0000

and if anyone would like azureus v2.5 install file you can reach me at gluestickchaos@hotmail.com and i can send it to you through filetopia at the least if not in several emails. this is a email just for this purpose so please post azureus v2.5 in the subject.

By: gluestickchaos

gluestickchaos — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:31:48 +0000

@9 i still have azureus v2.5 install file. i got it when they went to vuze and were still offering it as a dl. i hate vuze with a passion its annoying. i also refuse to update to v 3.0 for fear of vuze i dont want it no matter how many times they say it wont be downloaded with the install. i wish the shadow would have finished bit tornado. last time i talked to him several years ago on filetopia he said he was working on one window for all torrents but it seems to have bit the dust, althoug i still use it from time to time.

@10 ive used filetopia for like 7 years off and on and never new the designer died. i rememeber when torrenttopia was released though.
anyway interesting read.

By: Digger

Digger — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:51:25 +0000

Someone’s been posting this huge list of trackers on digg comments. Turns out they’re pretty useful and the biggest list of this kind I’ve seen yet:
http://singularweb.blogspot.com/2008/03/list-of-public-and-private-bittorrent.html

Anyone know any other lists like this?

By: man

man — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:37:09 +0000

[quote comment="322483"]Well, never heard of any of these, apart from the search site and GetTorrent, but you’ve most likely given them all the biggest advertisement that they have ever had to the most amount of people, your subscribers.

Shame it’s a slow news week it seems[/quote]

1. what kind of logic is this? ‘any publicity is good publicity’ doesn’t really apply to articles that start with “ridiculously useless”.

2. why do people always want to point out its a ‘slow news week’ when they disagree with a blog post?

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:09:20 +0000

That would be all of it!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Yatti

Yatti — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:58:58 +0000

Added some sites to the WOT (firefox addon)…. I love Peerguardian 2…

By: Nicky

Nicky — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:49:15 +0000

Add PeerGuardian and you got yourself a list.

By: Bobarkinator

Bobarkinator — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:21:03 +0000

Best ever.

By: Darth_yoda

Darth_yoda — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:38:43 +0000

For all those that are interested the PK Torrents appears to be malware. Check the Virus total Results here: http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/63973b2c17f24d87719f72205ed84f7f

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:29:14 +0000

How about Shareaza’s implementation of
BitTorrent? I’ve read so much about it
not working right that I only use it
for Gnutella G1/G2, preferring to use
Azureus for torrents.

By: Daydreamer1

Daydreamer1 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:24:42 +0000

Bottom line is you still have to decide which torrents are genuine and which aren’t if you intend to download. Just a matter of common sense and maybe a bit of experience too – oops sorry what was that officer oh yes do come in – would you like a cup of tea – hehehe

By: Assman

Assman — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:14:43 +0000

c’mon, no hate for BitComet or BitLord?

By: JackSprat

JackSprat — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:49:34 +0000

PirateBay search still sucks. Yeah, it’s improved but there’s so many better ones around (like most metasearch Bit sites). I always avoid using TPB for searching and choose Isohunt or Mini first. Not to take anything away from them – they’re a great site for browsing.

By: $hadow

$hadow — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:20:48 +0000

The best application that i found out and its the best of all is one that shows you (imagine that!!!) shows you the torrent name!!! including the .torrent extension! its amazing! i never thought something like this could be done, you can find it here: http://www.youGOTTAbekidding.if.you.will.click.com

By: Filepromptdotcom

Filepromptdotcom — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:53:11 +0000

Piratebays search used to bring up what seemed like random results, but has much imoproved lately

http://www.fileprompt.com

By: sega01

sega01 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:16:24 +0000

I think I will stick with Transmission for now :-). Gotta love this blog, keep up the awesome posts!

By: Fugazi

Fugazi — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:50:37 +0000

Someone should keep these programs around so that we can show our grandchildren what we had to put up with.

My favorite is

> Worst Toolbar – Torrent Search Bar v4.5

I wonder how their version v1.0 looked like. It probably only gave you a $20 Bonus!

By: ArtyTorrent

ArtyTorrent — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:36:07 +0000

Agreeing with 8. The slagging off of “n00bs” has to stop. Everyone was a newbie once, and we should be helping and encouraging them to get torrenting. Insulting new users doesn’t help the file-sharing community at all.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:35:34 +0000

Torrentopia was a promising client, but its developer died or something :P. He was the same guy who made another promising software: Filetopia.

By: nevermind1534

nevermind1534 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:32:21 +0000

Actually, the artemis appears to just remove the vuze, although I am sure that it removes other stuff, too. Actually, I think it would be nice if azureus was released without the Vuze video stuff in it.

By: elbeejay

elbeejay — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:26:05 +0000

just in case you didn’t know, being a loud basher isn’t communicating useful info to us others – be we dumb or noobs or whatever. we are all on here to learn from each other, so that we may graduate from our lowly status to that of less dumb and non-noob,

By: ANON

ANON — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:12:53 +0000

U TORRENT AND PRIVATE SITES..

GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS YOU EPIC FUCKING N00BS. I CANT BELIEVE I SHARE THE INTERNET WITH PEOPLE SO STUPID.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:57:48 +0000

Thanks for the article. Interesting read with some humour =)

By: Chrono

Chrono — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:20:20 +0000

Funny stuff :) :D

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:20:00 +0000

Epic lulz.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:15:08 +0000

lol wow

By: aNILEator

aNILEator — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:04:20 +0000

Well, never heard of any of these, apart from the search site and GetTorrent, but you’ve most likely given them all the biggest advertisement that they have ever had to the most amount of people, your subscribers.

Shame it’s a slow news week it seems

By: Purplemess

Purplemess — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:01:43 +0000

Thank god there are also GOOD BT-clients and search-utilities. Maybe make an article about them as a tribute? ^_^