w3btorrent is a full-featured but lightweight BitTorrent client designed to run off a Web Server. It is easy to configure, works without a database and supports WAP, so you can monitor your torrents on your mobile phone.
It’s probably the most famous hypothetical fist-fight in the history of the internet, so what better way to bring it up to date with events in the P2P world than to have our own fight? It’s an epic battle of good versus evil. So who will win? BitTorrent Pirates or MPAA Ninjas?
Lilx.net has a great Tv-calendar that makes it easy to check when the latest episode of your favorite TV-show is broadcasted. To make it even better, the calendar also links to the latest TV-torrents for every episode.
Like most other BitTorrent sites, The Pirate Bay has grown explosively over the last year. They are now tracking 500.000 .torrent files and almost 5 million peers, what makes them by far the most popular BitTorrent tracker. In comparison, a year ago they tracked only 125.000 torrents.
We all know about mininova, The Pirate Bay and Torrentz, but what few know is that there are a host of less known torrent sites that also have some great, and sometimes rare, content. Here are 20 of these less known torrent sites.
Torrent Episode Downloader, or Ted, is a cross-platform Java application that lets you easily subscribe to TV shows. It gives you a list of shows that are currently popular on BitTorrent networks, and automatically downloads the latest episodes of the shows you choose.
It is no secret that the MPAA and other anti-piracy organizations track down alleged pirates by uploading fake torrents. Up until now it was always unclear where those files came from, and how to identify them.
geoTorrent.org is a relatively new BitTorrent website that’s distributing, what it claims to be legal, Satellite images and geospatial data, something that would be impossible over HTTP considering file sizes can go up to 87 GB.
The popular BitTorrent client (2 million downloads a month) Azureus just released version 2.5.0.0. The new release includes some great new features.
To list a few:
send a friend (screenshots)
Reduced CPU usage
Auto upload speed
Ability to best guess folder you want to save torrent data to based on existing torrents
Ability to rename the displayed title of a download
Azureus [...]
Elephants Dream is a computer generated short movie. The movie was produced in about 8 months and the rendering of the graphics took 125 days with each frame using 2.8GB of memory.
The great thing about the project is that the movie is made entirely using Open Source software.
The movie is 11 minutes, including the [...]
Germany just agreed on a new law that makes it possible to put downloaders behind bars for two years. This is if you use the movie for personal use, commercial downloaders face up to five years in prison. Germany is considered to be one of the leading filesharing counties in Europe so this law will [...]
