Posts Tagged ‘P2P and Filesharing’

How Relakksed is Relakks?

Earlier today we wrote that the Swedish Pirate Party introduced a completely anonymous internet service called relakks. However, how anonymous is it, and is it really a darknet?

BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk32)

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
49,623

2 (NEW)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
48,247

3 (2)
Superman Returns
47,723

4 (3)
The Benchwarmers
45,502

5 (NEW)
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals
43,430

6 (4)
Final Destination 3
42,096

7 (5)
The Devil Wears Prada
42,183

8 (9)
Miami Vice
39,697

9 (8)
Click
39,664

10 (NEW)
John Tucker Must Die
39,350

The [...]

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 [...]

BitTorrent For Books?

BookMooch is a new p2p book sharing protocol for printed books. It works a little like BitTorrent, the more you share, the more you receive. And you will be banned if your share ratio gets below 5:1.
The inquirer writes:
The cashless site runs on a simple points system. Members receive one point for sending [...]

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 [...]