… news sites like Reddit carry great influence and the capacity to mobilize thousands of people for causes deemed … by the masses. A perfect example of the efficiency and speed of Reddit users became apparent a few days ago when a group of Redditors decided that the community should have a private BitTorrent tracker, exclusive to respected Reddit users. On Christmas day the …
… of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 broke records this year as the biggest ever entertainment … in the number of pirated copies being traded on BitTorrent. With 4.1 million unauthorized downloads of the PC version alone, … (2,350,000) (June. 2009) 4 Need For Speed Shift (2,100,000) (Sept. 2009) 5 Street Fighter …
BitTorrent was first released by Bram Cohen back in 2001, long before streaming video sites such as YouTube existed. At the time, those who wanted to watch high quality … for file-sharing, hundreds of millions of people have high speed broadband connections at their homes. Downloading a popular movie or …
… BitTorrent trackers are usually much smaller than public trackers. More commonly … similar torrents on public trackers, resulting in higher speeds and shorter download times. For many in the BitTorrent community, …
… the last 30 days, Mininova set a record that they will be unable to break in the near future. Last August a Dutch court ruled that Mininova had to remove all links to ‘infringing’ torrent files, with disastrous consequences. Since it is technically …
… rookie BitTorrent indexer KickassTorrents has been growing steadily since early 2009, but in the last few weeks the site has seen a surge in daily visitor numbers … 65% of monthly Vuze users leveraging the convenience and speed of Vuze search. My guess would be that we’re driving a fair amount of …
KickassTorrents is without doubt one of the most innovative torrent sites around. It is the only … can use httpTorrents, but in the future the download speed and number of simultaneous downloads will be limited for free users. …
… Bros. is one of the companies that have spent a huge deal of time and money in trying to get the people behind The Pirate Bay … worryingly some of the attendees admitted hating the BitTorrent inventor for creating his famous file transfer protocol. Aside from …
… is a piece of software which lets you control who your computer communicates with on the Internet. By utilizing … up more than 100,000 downloads. To mark this milestone, TorrentFreak caught up with Mark from the project for the lowdown. Mark told … blocklists along with software such as PeerBlock can help speed up downloads, but no-one knows how many of the potential “bad IPs” are …
… September we reported that Demonoid would go down for possibly-extended downtime due to some hardware problems. Two … with a library of hundreds of thousands of user uploaded torrent files. We have to admit that the sites listed here don’t quite compare … have while the site is down. If you’re looking for high speed downloads you could also consider to try Usenet instead (our Usenet …
… have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years already. Although the true reasons for this are not always clear, some ISPs have argued that … When needed, uTorrent will decrease the upload or download speed to avoid congestion. According to Morris it’s mainly the upload speed …
