Archive for the ‘Bittorrent’ Category
It has been reported that uTorrent will soon be releasing a paid version of their service. At the moment uTorrent has over 100 million active users worldwide and this is going to really shake up the market.
The paid version will offer the ability to convert videos and transfer files to external devices such. Thus, you will be able to move videos downloaded via uTorrent onto your iPhone, PS3, iPad, Apple TV, etc.
uTorrent Plus is the name of the product and it is expected to launch later this year in an invite only beta.
FrostWire is a P2P client that has been using the very popular Gnutella network for a long time now. However, they have no decided enough is enough and have moved over to the Bittorrent network.
“We decided to go all out with BitTorrent and spend our time making FrostWire the best BitTorrent client out there, and not fighting the endless spam battle. There are many opportunities to take in the realm of legal file-sharing and social networking that you will see happen as FrostWire 5 keeps evolving,” the FrostWire team told TorrentFreak.
This has to be the end of Gnutella that was had been the golden child of the torrenting world for such a long time.
Via TorrentFreak it has been reported that The Pirate Bay has shipped their new servers to their cave lair. It seems as though the whole of The Pirate Bay was previously hosted on a single Celeron 1.3GHz machine with 256MB RAM machine.
Now ten 2x 5620 Xeon machines have been ordered, eight with 12GB RAM and two with 24GB RAM. In total, The Pirate Bay will be using 17 machines.
The future of The Pirate Bay looks amazing and very fast!
For more information you can see the specs over at TorrentFreak.
It has been reported over at TorrentFreak that TalkTalk HomeSafe is now blocking bittorrent sites. It seems like TalkTalk HomeSafe labels all bittorrent sites with a “Virus Alert” message when trynig to view that site. This statement just simply isnt correct as it states that all bittorrent sites (isohunt.com, thepiratebay.org, etc) have malware on the site that will infect any computer that accesses the sites.
It seems like TalkTalk have been told to put a ban on the sites, but didnt really know how they could ban the sites legally. You might be losing a lot of customers after this TalkTalk!
Nerrot is a simple bit torrent searcher that finds the torrent you are looking for. Nerrot is like a Google I’m feeling lucky search. You simply type in the name of what you are looking for and it will popup a download almost instantly. Nerrot though does not have any other features so it is pretty simple as you can see from the above screen shot. Also although the searches are most of the time rite there is no way of detecting if a torrent is fake because there are no comments. I recommend this to people who are just looking to download torrent really quick.
BitLet is an online torrent client that downloads the torrents for you without any torrent client. BitLet runs in java so there is no extra installing needed.This is also good if you don’t want to install a torrent client on your computer. Also it supports video streaming so you can download a torrent that is a video and have it stream. They also support streaming for music too.BitLet supports changing the port and even the upload rate.They also have a bookmarklet for Firefox and IE that allows you to download the torrent without having to go to the BitLet page. BitLet also has cool features like resume downloading, using a local or online torrent,and allows you to download more than one torrent at a time. They also show you your upload and download speed and even how many seeders and leachers. Most of the time the torrents will work but not always. I would recommend this to users who rarely download torrents and also to people who need to download a torrent but don’t have the time or want to install a client.. If you download torrents often then i would stick with whatever client you have.
KickassTorrents is a very popular bittorrent search engine that has decided to drop the .com domain in favour of a .ph. Many bittorrent related sites have been dropping the .com domains, because the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been making the point of seizing domains related to file-sharing.
KickassTorrents has been feeling the heat recently. It was one of the sites reported to the US Government last November by the MPAA, who said that it had a “commercial look and feel that could deceive users into thinking it is legitimate.” The United States Trade Representative (USTR) later copied this description in its overview of sites that are “notorious for infringing activities.”
Read the rest of the article over at TorrentFreak.
The Digital Music Report is out and it claims that 95% of all digitial music downloads are illegal. Bittorrent is still on the rise, but it seems like adoption of digital music services is growing and more music is being consumed now than ever before.
CD sales are still on the rapid decline and sales of downloaded music rose by 6% to 4.6 billion U.S. dollars (3.4bn euros). Meanwhile, nearly a third of the total turnover for record companies comes from digital business.
via RouteNote
Here at Crenk we have mentioned Apple’s launch of Mac OS X Lion many times. Now we have noticed that Mac OS X Lion is available across a load of torrent sites.
It has been noted that an installed version of Lion will ‘phone home’ to Apple. Im sure this might even quickly lead to Apple sending out the control squad on your ass. Developers can get the Mac OS X Lion preview now and it only costs $99. Is it really worth pirating the software over $99?
Im not sure this is the best way for the music industry! It seems like the music industry is sueing isoHunt for million.
Michael Geist sez,
As the debate over Canada’s copyright reform legislation, Bill C-32,continues to rage before a legislative committee, one of the most frequently heard claims is that tough reforms are needed to counter Canada’s reputation as a “piracy haven”. The presence of several well-known BitTorrent sites, most notably B.C.-based isoHunt, is cited as evidence for Canada’s supposedly lax laws that the industry says leaves it powerless.When the bill was first introduced last June, the Canadian Recording Industry Association stated that “stronger rules are also needed to rein in Canadian-based peer-to-peer websites, which, according to IFPI,have become ‘a major source of the world’s piracy problem’.”
Politicians have taken note of the concerns. Industry Minister Tony Clement said the new bill will target “wealth destroyers” and Liberal MP Dan McTeague has lamented that “the very existence of an isoHunt in Canada is problematic and is very much the result of what appears to be a legislative holiday for companies and other BitTorrent sites.”
While the notion of a “legislative holiday” appears to be the impetus for some of the provisions on Bill C-32, what is left unsaid – and thus far unreported – is that 26 of the world’s largest recording companies launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against isoHunt using existing Canadian copyright law just three weeks before the introduction of the bill.
Weak Canadian Copyright Laws? Recording Industry Files Massive Lawsuit Against isoHunt
