Posts Tagged ‘Bittorrent Clients’

10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent (wk35)

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “The X Files: I Want to Believe” tops the chart this week.

TorrentSpy Advertises Malicious BitTorrent Client

Running a BitTorrent site can get pretty expensive, especially when you’re caught up in a lawsuit with the MPAA. But, recommending malicious BitTorrent clients like Get-Torrent to your users is not the solution, not even if they pay $$ per install. Money corrupts?

Company Cracks BitTorrent Protocol Encryption and Introduces Tracker Whitelists

The BitTorrent bandwidth battle continues. Ipoque, a German based company that specializes in developing bandwidth managing solutions for Universities and ISPs, announced today that their products are now able to detect and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic. In addition, they introduce the option to maintain a “whitelist” of legal BitTorrent trackers that are allowed on the monitored network. You could call it the PeerGuardian for ISPs.

Will BitTorrent Open Source uTorrent?

After the recent announcement by BitTorrent Inc that it has acquired the popular, lightweight Windows torrent client, uTorrent, there has been much speculation about the company making the source code of uTorrent public.

Yet another social BitTorrent client

A few months ago we posted some articles about “tribler”, the first “social” BitTorrent client. Tribler is a successful research project funded by the Dutch government. However, it looks like Tribler will have some competition form “torrent swapper”.
So what’s the deal?
Torrent Swapper is an open sourced powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with special [...]