Torrentspy typo takes you to Microsoft

Keep the bad guys out

Do you hate the MPAA / RIAA and other company's that spy on your download behavior? Are you tired downloading fake chunks of a file?…

Movie Director discusses his movie on Torrentspy.com

Dylan Avery, the director of the 9/11 documentary "loose change" is commenting on his movie's torrent on torrentspy.

Free software .torrent

SoftwareFor.org just released a new version of their free software package "Software for Starving Students". This CD comes with a lot of free software and…

BitTorrent 2005 part 7, Advancing

So where do we go from here? What's the next step, what's hot and what will 2006 bring to the BitTorrent community? More rss? AJAX?…

And the winner is: Torrentspy

Based on Alexa's traffic ratings torrentspy.com is the most popular torrent site of 2005. Torrentspy caught up with isohunt.com and torrentreactor.net around April.

BitTorrent 2005 part 6, Torrent Clients

Two thing that shook up the BitTorrent community in 2005 (clientwise). First the intoduction of so called "trackerless torrents". Second: uTorrent, a lightweight torrent client…

BitTorrent 2005 part 5, Filling the gap

When suprnova.org was taken offline 19 december 2004, there was a gap to fill. Initially lokitorrent took over. Lokitorrent's traffic tripled within a week. But…