They are quite rare events but on occasion, artists actually encourage fans to share their music online. Singer Joss Stone has no problem doing so at all. In fact, after a recent concert in Argentina she said that piracy is “brilliant”.
BitTorrent continues to expand beyond the computer. Today, the Taiwanese company IAdea announced that BitTorrent optimized microprocessors will become available soon. This makes it relatively easy to add BitTorrent support to other consumer electronics devices.
This weeks most popular DVDrips distributed over BitTorrent.
We have decided to publish a weekly DVDrip chart here on TorrentFreak. The “BitTorrent DVDrip top 10″ will replace the “BitTorrent movie download chart,” and will be published on a weekly basis. The chart will only list DVDrips, no DVDscreeners and no Cams.
No BitTorrent movie download chart this week due to parental issues at BigChampagne. But don’t worry, we have a worthy replacement: TorrentFreak’s one and only BitTorrent DVDrip Top 10.
We all know that BitTorrent is probably the best way to transfer large files, but this doesn’t mean that one should increase the filesize because they distribute something over BitTorrent.
This week’s most popular movie downloads on BitTorrent.
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