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The Pirate Bay, mininova, and Torrentspy Enter the Alexa 200

The Pirate Bay, Torrentspy and mininova have entered the top 200 most popular websites on the Internet. The recent boost in traffic was caused by the downtime that Isohunt, another popular BitTorrent site is currently suffering.

CacheLogic and BitTorrent Introduce Cache Discovery Protocol

CacheLogic and BitTorrent announced a strategic partnership to further enable the widespread adoption of P2P technology as a distribution network for commercial video and other rich digital content. One of the key projects is the development of the revolutionary Cache Discovery Protocol (CDP).

Bitchtorrent: Bram Cohen Invents New Protocol

It’s real easy to get started with BitchTorrent for your distribution needs. To begin, all you need is a feeder. The feeder takes and seeds files called bleeders.

“With the feeders soon seeding bleeders, you’ll find yourself flooded with needers needing bleeders finding feeders in the seed.
When your feeder seeds the seed, you need the needer [...]

LimeWire Sued by the RIAA

A couple of weeks ago the LimeWire team announced that they were planning to implement BitTorrent support in their popular filesharing application. Now the’re sued by the RIAA.
Slightly more than a year ago the word was going around that LimeWire, at the time download.com’s most popular commercial p2p file sharing application, was going down.
“We hold [...]

BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk31)

A weekly returning chart listing the most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.

Ranking
Movie
Seeds / Peers

1 (1)
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest
48,933

2 (2)
Superman Returns
48,796

3 (NEW)
The Benchwarmers
47,768

4 (NEW)
Final Destination 3
45,496

5 (4)
The Devil Wears Prada
43,305

6 (5)
Cars
42,763

7 (3)
Nacho Libre
42,021

8 (5)
Click
39,854

9 (NEW)
Miami Vice
39,643

10 (8)
The Break-Up
38,927

The data is collected by Big Champagne, the numbers of seeds and [...]

Odd Job Jack For Free

The Canadian animation series Odd Job Jack releases every episode plus additional resources for free. The content is released under a Creative Commons license, and distibuted over BitTorrent.

What do they offer?
Master flash files and bitmaps of every piece of art used in this season of Odd Job Jack. Every character, prop, and background from every [...]

Woman Caught Recording Anti-Piracy Commercial

A New Zealand woman was busted recording an anti-piracy commercial that was playing ahead of the popular Disney movie “Cars”.

Gangs of London Leaks on BitTorrent

An internal BETA version of the PSP game “Gangs of London” has been leaked onto several BitTorrent sites last week. Sony spokesman David Wilson warns potential pirates that “the leak” is incomplete and that it might be a bit “buggy”.
He said:
“The version of Gangs Of London that you have brought our attention to here is [...]

MashBoxx: Authorized P2P Downloads

Mashboxx is the first p2p application that offers music downloads authorized by major record labels. This week Mashboxx finalized their deal with SONY BMG.

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