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TorrentFreak TV Episode 6

After a two month break, TorrentFreak TV returns with a brand new episode and a new host. This week’s episode includes a recap of of the Pirate Bay trial, Vuze’s secret and some BitTorrent speed tips.

TorrentFreak TV covers some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of BitTorrent. A torrent for this episode is available on Mininova.

We welcome Stacia as our new host.

For questions, comments or suggestions, feel free to contact the crew at tv@torrentfreak.com. We encourage contributions from viewers!

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  • null

    4th, earth, good stuff, should see more of this…

  • Chris

    I bet you didn’t know, this is Chloe O’Brien’s sister!

  • Mark

    I laughed at the slumdog millionaire absolute worst movie ive seen in a long time

  • RoestVrijStaal

    Very, very nice intro :)

    too bad there is no part of video of the TPB-trial :’(

    @the cameraman:
    Please keep the hands of the hosts out their trouser pockets (or film a smaller close up). It will look then more professional ;)

  • Kai

    Yawn.

  • http://outstandingmovies.blogspot.com/

    I’ll have to kill you now

  • Gonz

    @4 So you can waste it like that? Agreed, though, it can get quite annoying.
    On topic: welcome, Stacia!

  • moonshine

    Reading off dummy cards is poor stuff and hey folks loose the second bird she might be foxy but I can download some pron if I want that. Poor attempt, get your finger out and do a good production not a piss take for the boys!!!!
    So lets recap: first bird is ok second bird is crap.

  • M

    @6
    :D

  • Ruslan Almukhametov

    Nice one.

  • TFTV-Fan

    The new hosts aren’t as good as the last ones… it’s apparent that they are reading the news from a script. They also see seems completely clueless and nervous. It’s almost sad how nervous they appear, stuttering words, having their hands in their pockets the whole time, and barely being able to stand up straight. I know that it’s their first time on the show, and I don’t want to be hard on them or anything, but they barely seem knowledgeable about the subjects they are speaking about. I hope that in the next episodes, the hosts at least appear more professional, as I was rather disappointed with their performances.

  • Caption Contestant

    “Stacy, please put down your Grandmother’s cardigan. You have 20 seconds to comply.”

  • katie

    @ 11

    I agree, but the “hosts” in this show were the exact same person, ha.

  • me

    maybe you should use those lapel mics for better sound quality

  • Nizar

    The second host kinda sucked big time, the first one was a lot more prepared.

  • anonymous

    The host is hot!

  • Jaas

    Wow, this is lame!

  • Anonymous

    ROFL, someones been using Riot gear and evalution for the motion graphics… :p

  • Jeremy

    She sounds like a monotone robot. The other person brought info much better.

  • Doom

    There was only ONE host guys, she is just dressed and speaks differently.

  • Anonymous

    The new graphics look top, LOVED the titles and thought the name thing was good too.

    good luck guys!

  • eugene eugenics

    should give advice on security not speed.
    shells hosters and such.
    nextweek, seedboxes!!!
    plz plz plz i knkow nawthing!
    honestly every shmuck fresh off a p2p app knows the speed tweaks (ie me)

  • Extreme Jenga

    In the words of Charlie Brooker

    “Take your fucking hands out your pockets when you’re talking to me”

  • Stacey Lover

    Loved the Stacey part :)
    Too bad I couldn’t hear her because of the loud bass.

    The music background is nice, but you need to watch your levels, it’s muting the host.

  • Anonymous

    Really amateur come on TorrentFreak this just hurts compared to the professionalism in your articles.

  • hiphop

    annoying unpracticed bitch. Get a good host instead of this slow reading idiot.

  • Chris

    Wow, people here are spoiled brats. It’s just supposed to be something fun, it doesn’t have to be CNN or anything. Chill, and f-off with the insults.

  • flash88

    I’d have to agree with 26 Chris…It is what it is and i thought it was funny.

  • 4v4l0n42

    To the host: I appreciate the effort.

    I miss Cali Lewis.

  • Keyman30

    Sorry but your to wooden.
    Don’t hate me!….

  • Anonymous

    torrentfreak, you can do better than this.

  • Anonymous

    @30

    wooden????

  • anon

    pre-read the script… things need to flow. And we’re not all 14 yr old boys, we can watch a male host too as long as the content is interesting :)

    hell, you could use two hosts and run it as a conversation instead of a monologue.

  • i_am_you

    rubbish…I have seen people at public speaking class do a better job. How can you be nervous without a live audience? Next time use someone with more talent, and brains. The speed of her reading is sad, kinda like a 12 yr old, maybe worse.

  • Anonymous

    She reads too slow. The previous girl had a funky inflection in her speech but this one sounds SUPER scripted. Its just overkill read off a card.

  • UraPhake

    Well…I used to like TorrentFreak TV.

    Until this one, that is.

    Insufferably bad — I turned it off after the first minute.

  • Centerfold

    Where’s the Cleavage !?!?!?!

  • Rekrul

    I’m sorry, but Stacia’s deliver is terrible. The only part of the entire video that seems natural is the part with the cream cheese. All the rest sounds like she’s reading off cue cards with no practice.

    The host of a news show should be familiar with the stories ahead of time and should be able to sound natural, like she’s talking about her favorite band, or what she had for breakfast.

  • Uhmm

    I was expecting them to strip by the way the video was going.

  • Naxalite

    Um, Ashley was so fine. Oh well, I’ll give this a shot….

  • Lynx

    Oh My God!
    What the hell was that!
    “i’m the host of all future torrentfreak tv episodes…so deal with it”. I have never had a negitive coment about this site but please for the love of what is good about torrentfreak remove the gutter scrap.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously?

  • Jaconius

    oh god, the hostess is horrible. At least find someone who can read a prompter. My god.

  • carlton

    It would be nice if the host reads what she’s gonna say before, and then just speak naturally, having some cue cards just for backup.

  • TG

    Why was that second host trying to make torrent upload speeds beeter sexy?
    It doesnt work…..
    Bring back the original host, more professional…

  • Jack Danya Kemplin

    :( I miss Ashley, she was great.

  • 7SeVeN7

    i think the new format is better.

    needs a little tweaking but HEY, not to shabby for for first new episode, and like someone above mentioned,it aint fucking CNN , what do you haters/Criticizers expect from a small production??

  • Blake

    Stacia needs to stop reading her content and stacy should drop the sexy “i dont know what ports or upnp are” act.

  • God 2.0

    Just have a narrator please. Hire a professional, or find a good voice actor.

  • BRC

    Yea, the prompter reading was a little obvious… also, the ‘speed tips’ were kind of unnecessary. Otherwise, pretty good though the news was a bit dated.

  • Administart0r

    Great show but the hosts seem a bit camera shy and you girls need to get better microphones, the audio is not so good.

    -Cheers

  • Dave

    BRING BACK ASHLEY! She has better boobs.

  • xentar

    I think the intro might be a bit too long, it’s seems kinda wasteful to make it longer than 10 seconds or so.

    And, well, while Stacia did some nice field interviews, a while ago she doesn’t seem to be an improvement as a host from Ashley, hope it’s not all those negative comments that discouraged her from hosting the show. IMHO, the best host performance so far was in the long forgotten episode 1 as it was the most natural one… In the end, having both ladies sharing time and doing what they do best would probably be the best option (after all, I liked the ‘Stacy’ part quite a bit…).

  • TheGman

    Why are the hosts changeing bring back the the guy that sayed f ever other word…

  • Lifty

    Why do you name all these episodes completely different? Besides the fact that some of the torrents are named wrong, the dirs in them are wrong too. But especially file naming sucks extremely:

    TorrentFreak S01E02.m4v
    TorrentFreak-TV-s01e01.mov
    TorrentFreak-TorrentFreakTVS01E03809.m4v
    TorrentFreak-TorrentFreakTVS01E04984.m4v
    TorrentFreakTVS01E05540.m4v
    TorrentFreakTVS01E06.m4v

  • SomeGuy

    Where da boobies?
    where da boobies?
    i want boobies!
    i miss boobies.
    me sad with no boobies.

    (nice job, I love the new format)

  • Klein

    Who is that guy hosting the thing?

  • RoestVrijStaal

    @7 (aka Gonz):
    I don’t want to break this episode. But every time when the hosts are playing with their fingers, and etc, I thought: damn, get a chair or sit on a table, so you look less nervous then you get filmed.

  • scos

    One question: WHERE IS ASHLEY ?!!!

  • moho

    WOW, arn’t you boring darling.

  • Eduardo

    wtf? this was shit.

  • jadedstony

    I enjoyed the show, it may not have been syndicated professionalism but what do you expect for free?

    Keep them coming.

  • An Anonymous Coward

    This episode was all right, but don’t make it so cute next time. I watch this show to get information, not to chuckle to myself.

  • ???

    I’m sorry… but once Stacia hit the screen and started talking I had to stop playing it. Her acting like she was an extremely pathetic dumb blond who was about to take her cloths off at any min. and start pleasuring her self was rather annoying not to mention completely pointless. I want to hear about torrent/file sharing news… cut the shit please.

    Two thumbs down. I only hope that you guys actually read these comments for suggestions :\

  • TorrentFreakNasty

    I enjoy TorrentFreak very much, however, this girl is the WORST host I’ve ever witnessed. She can not even read fluently. I was actually laughing at her stumble over her words.

  • Jack Stamos

    Wow, it just keeps getting better and better doesnt it! I love it.

    RT
    privacy.at.tc

  • Lul

    I like it.

  • Joshua

    I think you should get someone who can actually read well. The way this chick reads the news makes it seem like she doesn’t really know how to read.

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  • Anonymous

    If you opened a restaurant would you hire a chef who couldn’t cook, or a dishwasher who didn’t know how to wash a plate, NO, you wouldn’t because your restaurant would fail.

    Why anyone at TorrentFreak would think it was a good idea let these girls host a show and represent their site is beyond me.

  • Irishcult

    i hope u loosen up in future episodes.

  • whoathere

    wow the old host was waaay hotter, you should bring her back. This chick sucks soo bad that i dont even want to watch this anymore.

  • Me

    T-T-T-TIMMAHHHH!!

  • Anonymous

    this is so boring to watch. maybe you should try editing it next time or do more than one take…or i don’t know something! it sucks big time.

  • Carl

    Maybe you should just stick to animated stuff and not have actual people or even have a photo of someone and animate the mouth…

  • Lovechild

    The intro is beautiful, however the new host definitely needs to get more comfortable with the camera. She sounds a bit stuttery, hopefully with a bit of time she will gain more confidence.

  • Anonymous

    @73
    I agree!!! Do something different. its boring to watch someone just standing and not moving!!!!!!
    plus its boring just to listen to her read…Edit much? …… sucks.

  • Nea

    I loved it – hahahahaha – funny Stacey! :P :P

  • Turbis

    I loved it :P But you should prepare a little better

  • himanshu

    pretty boring stuff ….. not fun at all :(

  • Anonymous

    till as bad as ever, please just write news

  • Anonymous

    still as bad as ever, please just write news

  • lilricky

    She seems wooden and bitchy. Not the good bitchy, but bitchy as if she’s used to people calling her bitchy.

  • Anonymous

    This episode of TorrentFreak TV sucks monkey f*ck. Badly rehearsed and had ‘speed tips’ that even Captain Obvious would know. I’d rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in my ear than watch this sh*t. Oh, but nice intro guys. That was the best 26 seconds of the whole episode.

  • Anonymous

    This episode of TorrentFreak TV sucks monkey ****. Badly rehearsed and had ‘speed tips’ that even Captain Obvious would know. I’d rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in my ear than watch this ****. Oh, but nice intro guys. That was the best 26 seconds of the whole episode.

  • lol

    i lol’d when i saw the list of private trackers there just as bad as pirate bay real slow pre’s and stupid wait times especially on torrentleech aka pay2leech. the owner is a dick on that site.

  • AdamRav

    LOL, i find it funny people mentioning 2 separate people doing the show lol

    I thought it was good but it was a little short. It needs to be at least 10-15mins so you can report more stuff.

    Like some latest gadgets and so on

    Great work.

  • (%!

    stacia and stacy are the same person.
    poking fun at the previous host. I liked the old host better.

  • trntlvr

    Lame Host. Would have liked more trial info.

  • Anonymous

    Did she just get forced into this at the last second? She seems nervous, unprepared and listless. Please hands out the pockets or at least cut the camera in closer so we can see it. Get her notes off crappy cue cards and brief her on the news beforehand. Give her the bullet points on a sheet of paper so she has something to do with her hands. Biggest problem is the frequent pauses as she’s speaking and wooden like speech. All is most likely due to being unfamiliar with what shes supposed to say and waiting for cue cards to change.

  • jerk

    any rapidshare links? ;)

  • kees

    LOL Awesome :D Also lol @ girl no2 great :)

  • startrekrules

    #3, couldn’t agree more. can’t believe how popular that movie got, it was sooo boring. can’t wait for star trek to come out in may and kick some serious slumdog and watchmen @$$! it’s easily going to be the best movie of the year, if not the best of all time! T-minus 2 months!

  • flo

    Stacia is so hot

  • dan

    love the new format but bring back Ashley – she was so sexy

  • hot sex gary

    You’ve had two months to get your lines right, its not hard to make a presentation without fucking up your words, and yes, it makes it look much more professional if the whole thing doesn’t look terribly scripted.

  • eyeballgummy

    I didnt realise how many perfectionists their are in this world! I thought it was informitive enough for what it was. Mayb most people know about the tips??? Well I didnt, and Im sure theirs others.

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