TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Pirate Bay's tracker closure has spurred several discussions about DHT, BitTorrent's fallback technology for when central trackers are unavailable. According to some, DHT has some problems of its own. Novell, for example, decided to ship openSUSE with the BitTorrent client Transmission, but not before stripping DHT support.
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Last week the Digital Economy Bill was released and included tough measures to deal with illicit file-sharing. It was preceded by a consultation period where individuals, consumer groups and ISPs voiced serious concerns over the proposals. The government seems to have completely ignored them - not so the rights holders.
Money Making and Blogging Tips (Free subscription) | yesterday
Isohunt.com is a bittorent and p2p search engine. Website Outlook Price: $12.23 million Isohunt is an interactive and awesome p2p community whose users share comments and ratings on discovered media. It index torrent trackers, file directory, and provides cross-referenced multi-tracker... [[ Please click on the title to read the full content ]]
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Piracy is without a doubt, truly evil. It doesn't help the artists, it robs them of their rightful revenue and ss such a poor basis for a business model, it's unworthy of consideration. Of course, new streaming sites are miles better, offering a legal way to listen to free music. Hmm - Lady Gaga got a million plays on Spotify and earned $167.
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker for good, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX and magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who although wishing to adapt, were confronted with hard to grasp terminology and technology. Time for some explaining.
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Details of Lord Mandelson's draconian pro-copyright plans contained in the Digital Economy Bill leaked out yesterday, provoking a wave of dissent. The Liberal Democrats have now made a statement, voicing dismay at this "utterly shameless" attempt to introduce major rules without proper Commons assessment.
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Tomorrow morning Lord Mandelson will present the Digital Economy Bill to the public, which among other things is aimed at reducing illicit file-sharing. According to parts of the bill that leaked today, the legislation could lead to jail terms for file-sharers and unprecedented power for the entertainment industries.
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
iiNet’s chief barrister argued today that there is insufficient evidence to show that when customers shared movies using BitTorrent, they shared "substantial parts" of said material, an essential requirement for proving infringement. Furthermore, in order to verify AFACT claims, iiNet itself would have to infringe copyright.
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Despite negative court verdicts against the two leading torrent sites, the BitTorrent popularity surge is still underway judging from ever increasing download figures. Mininova, the most visited BitTorrent indexer, broke an impressive record today. Since its inception, the site has served a dazzling 10 billion torrent downloads.
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Swedish hosting provider Portlane is being sued by several Hollywood movie studios for hosting the standalone BitTorrent tracker, OpenBitTorrent. The movie studios are claiming that OpenBitTorrent is a re-branded copy of The Pirate Bay tracker that shut down yesterday.
Web Talk (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Yesterday, I totally missed this incredible news. The world’s famous Bittorent tracker has ceased its activity of…tracker! What does this means? Well, for the final user this doesn’t mean anything because he still will be able to download and share files. But under a pure technology standpoint all this makes a huge difference! As you [...]
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
After discovering the Pirate Bay logo hadn't been registered with the patent office, a Swedish company took the opportunity to claim it as their own in order to commercially exploit it. After bloodless negotiations, the company now seems prepared to play nice and let their application slide. But they don't go away empty-handed.
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
If you have ever used a public or open tracker, you know that reliability often comes with a half-hearted smile - trackers can go offline and return again, often without explanation or warning. To help keep track of the status of public trackers, there's now Trackon, the BitTorrent Tracker Tracker.
Web Talk (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Downloading from Bittorent websites has become one of the most important activities for a lot of users. As a matter of fact, from these sharing websites you can grab anything, both legal and illegal. For some reason, the new Windows 7 seems to be incompatible with one of the most used bittorrent client available, uTorrent. [...]
TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Today marks the end of an era, as The Pirate Bay team announces that the world's largest BitTorrent tracker is shutting down for good. Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to continue downloading.
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