Allpeers is a revolutionary Firefox extension that makes it possible to share pictures, music and video’s within Firefox. According to Red Herring allpeers has received a first round of funding from two venture capital firms that backed Skype. Red Herring:“AllPeers co-founder and CEO Cedric Maloux declined to disclose the amount of funding from Mangrove Capital [...]
In Friday’s edition of BBC’s newsnight, BitTorrent is portrayed as the new evil that helps terrorists and pedophiles to do their “job” without being noticed. In a dramatic 4 minute report the public is led to believe that BitTorrent is a threat to (inter)national security. Unbelievable, see for yourself.
A private Beta version of Tribler, the new “social BitTorrent client” leaked to the public. The Beta version allows you to add friends and peers. Tribler also introduces “recommendations” based on your personal profile.
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