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.

• uTorrent 3.0 Adds Ratings, Comments and Streaming – April 20, 2011
• Google Starts Censoring Its Search: No More BitTorrent, RapidShare and More – January 27, 2011
• Google Now Offers Secure Searches – May 29, 2010
• uTorrent 16% faster than Vuze – April 11, 2010

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“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.

• uTorrent 16% faster than Vuze – April 11, 2010
• Diglo: Social Network for File Sharing and Media Hosting – July 31, 2011
• uTorrent 3.0 Adds Ratings, Comments and Streaming – April 20, 2011
• KickassTorrents Drops the .com Domain in Favour of Something a Bit More Secure – April 8, 2011
• 95% of All Digital Music Downloads are Illegal – March 8, 2011

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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.

• Webhostingtalk.com: What’s The Latest Hosting Buzz? – July 18, 2011
• Nerrot: The Simplest Bittorrent Site Yet – May 5, 2011
• BitLet Downloads Torrents For You Without any Torrent Clients – May 4, 2011
• BitSnoop: A New Torrent Search Engine with No Duplications and Amazing Search Results – October 17, 2009
• MIT Report Could Save Internet Companies Millions – August 23, 2009

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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!

• New Virus “Erases” Files and Folders: Panics Users – April 27, 2011
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• Raptr Is the Ultimate Gaming Service: Connects PSN, Xbox and More – May 16, 2011
• XbList is a Desktop Xbox 360 Friends List – May 8, 2011
• Give Away Of The Day gives you free software everyday – May 5, 2011
• BitLet Downloads Torrents For You Without any Torrent Clients – May 4, 2011
• 26 New And Awesome Web Apps You Probably Don’t Know About – March 3, 2009

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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.

• Nerrot: The Simplest Bittorrent Site Yet – May 5, 2011
• Raptr Is the Ultimate Gaming Service: Connects PSN, Xbox and More – May 16, 2011
• XbList is a Desktop Xbox 360 Friends List – May 8, 2011
• Give Away Of The Day gives you free software everyday – May 5, 2011
• 26 New And Awesome Web Apps You Probably Don’t Know About – March 3, 2009

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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.

• FrostWire Stops Using Gnutella and Goes All Bittorrent on Their P2P Network – July 6, 2011
• uTorrent 3.0 Adds Ratings, Comments and Streaming – April 20, 2011
• 95% of All Digital Music Downloads are Illegal – March 8, 2011
• Mac OS X Lion Available to Download for Free on Bittorrent Sites – February 21, 2011
• isoHunt Being Sued for Million by the Recording Industry – February 14, 2011

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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

• IFPI Report on Global Music Sales: Digital Music Sales Are Up – March 29, 2011
• i Life Solutions: Best In Home Personalised Theatre – February 9, 2012
• Spotify Gift Cards Available to Buy in Retail Stores in UK in time for Christmas – November 1, 2011
• Spotify Gapless Playback – October 17, 2011
• 2 Tools to Turn YouTube into a Genre-Based Radio Station – October 3, 2011

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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?

• Apple to Launch iOS 5, Mac OS X Lion and iCloud Next Monday at WWDC 2011 – May 31, 2011
• Mac OS X Lion Gets Big Update for Developers: Download Now – March 31, 2011
• Apple to Launch iOS 4.4 or 5 and Mac OS X Lion at WWDC 2011 – March 28, 2011
• Mac OS X Lion 10.7 Features and Improvements So Far – February 28, 2011
• Images: Mac OS X Lion – February 25, 2011

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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

• Spotify Conversion Rate is at 12.5 Percent in the US: Major Labels Rejoice – August 9, 2011
• FrostWire Stops Using Gnutella and Goes All Bittorrent on Their P2P Network – July 6, 2011
• uTorrent 3.0 Adds Ratings, Comments and Streaming – April 20, 2011
• KickassTorrents Drops the .com Domain in Favour of Something a Bit More Secure – April 8, 2011
• 95% of All Digital Music Downloads are Illegal – March 8, 2011

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Among the list of forbidden keywords are “uTorrent”, a hugely popular piece of entirely legal software and “BitTorrent”, a file transfer protocol and the name of San Fransisco based company BitTorrent Inc. As of today, these keywords will no longer be suggested by Google when you type in the first letter, nor will they show up in Google Instant.

To read the rest of the article head over to TorrentFreak.

• Breaking: Google Release New Search Design Worldwide – June 30, 2011
• uTorrent 3.0 Adds Ratings, Comments and Streaming – April 20, 2011
• Google Now Offers Secure Searches – May 29, 2010
• uTorrent 16% faster than Vuze – April 11, 2010
• Google Offers Available in Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa – January 25, 2012

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The BitTorrent protocol made a significant change in the Web area we live in, and today is the most important P2P protocol available. That’s why the associated clients have always been as different as they can be to prove users that each one always offers better speed, usability, scalability etc.

The study took and measured the speed of 10 million users over one month, and the results giving uTorrent defeating Vuze, also evaluates the possible reasons of why this is happening. Two of the main differences between these clients are: How they manage their neighborhood and how they distribute their upload capacity to their peers.

• FrostWire Stops Using Gnutella and Goes All Bittorrent on Their P2P Network – July 6, 2011
• uTorrent 3.0 Adds Ratings, Comments and Streaming – April 20, 2011
• Google Starts Censoring Its Search: No More BitTorrent, RapidShare and More – January 27, 2011
• Diglo: Social Network for File Sharing and Media Hosting – July 31, 2011
• uTorrent Paid Version Coming – July 18, 2011

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There are no official dates for the release of this Service Pack, and there is no much information about it, but let’s take a closer look.

• The SP1 will also be released for Windows Server 2008 R2. After all, those two have the same kernel installed.
• Will include, of course, minor updates for the operating system but no so much of new features (maybe for SP2?).
• New version of the Remote Desktop client designed to work with RemoteFX (new remote access platform to be included in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1).
• Dynamic Memory feature. This will let you to add memory to a virtual machine on the fly, instead of shutting it down.
• Supporting USB 3.0?

There are some screenshots available as well.

Even though there’s no official date of the release, the impact among Windows 7 to the public have been amazing; so thinking about waiting for a Service Pack does not change the idea for most organization for migrating now their platform to Windows 7.

Around 50% of Windows organizations are considering to migrate now to Windows 7 and not to wait for SP1. This behavior did not occur with Windows Vista.

• Windows 7 SP1 Pre-RC Leaked – October 17, 2010
• Dont Just Jump Ship to Apple So Easily – September 27, 2011
• Free Angry Birds Windows 7 Theme – July 2, 2011
• Windows 7 Themes Manager – June 20, 2011
• Transformers 3 Theme for Windows 7 – June 18, 2011

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BitSnoop is a new torrent search engine that is supposedly better than its rivals because of a new tactic it uses when searching for torrents; indexing and combining of torrents and getting rid of duplicated ones.The torrents are generated by Tracker Match. It locates all the relevant trackers to your search and removes duplicated torrents or ‘bad’ torrents to avoid slow downloads.

I think that the homepage which you can see above is quite nice as it’s minimalistic – after all it’s there for one purpose and one purpose only. Google has had much by employing the purposeful look by using minimal text and images. The results, seen below, are also well presented and spaced out; again a minimalistic look.

Overall, I thought it was okay. I didn’t really notice much of a change in my regular download speed but the fact that it was taking away duplicated torrents was comforting, I guess. Check it out for yourself here.

• Nerrot: The Simplest Bittorrent Site Yet – May 5, 2011
• Download Windows 8 Now – September 14, 2011
• Synergy Lets You Use One Mouse and Keyboard with Two or More Computers – May 22, 2011
• The Pirate Bay Gets a Shipment of New Servers – May 17, 2011
• How to Download and Burn Hulu Movie to DVD – May 17, 2011

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The case was made against the sites three founders who were not even present, nor aware of the proceedings. When they found they sent a letter to have the ruling dismissed as they are currently seeking to make an appeal.

As it stands, if they do not comply with the ruling and remove all access to the site in Holland

within the next ten days then the company will be fined three million Euros. They will also be fined 30,000 Euro for

every day that the site remains up and running in the Netherlands.

In April, the three owners, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg  along with a financer in Sweden were ordered to pay around 3 million in damages to various production companies and were to serve a year behind bars. Currently, a company called Global Gaming Factory has plans to buy Pirate Bay, which is only adding to the pandemonium.

• Hong Kong Apple Store Tour – October 3, 2011
• Huffington Post To Be Leading Independent Online News Source in UK – July 9, 2011
• The Pirate Bay Gets a Shipment of New Servers – May 17, 2011
• Hachi Shows You How To Meet New People – April 27, 2011
• New Virus “Erases” Files and Folders: Panics Users – April 27, 2011

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You download Vuze here (less than 10Mb) and install it in under five minutes. No need to restart your PC or do any complicated set up, so already it was in my good books. Upon opening the program for the first time I was greeted by a fairly simple interface that the average computer user could navigate. Search Bar, Library, Current Downloads and even a helpful ‘Getting Started’ section to guide you through the stages (although you really shouldn’t need it).

One thing that caught my eye was HD. Lucky for me, my new laptop was indeed HD compatible so I decided to search for a HD clip. I typed in ‘Public Enemies’ into the search bar and up popped a load of results. I could either watch the whole movie or simply a trailer. The HD quality was outstanding which surprised me as the download took less than a minute. Sound and playback quality was also top notch. No jumpy movies like you get with browser players.

Another section is ‘Devices’. Now, Vuze is fully compatible with a host of portable devices such as your iPod, iPhone, laptop, and other portables. It also works a treat on the PS3 and XBOX 360.

If you’re a videographer you can also publish your content on the Vuze network. This is great for publicizing your stuff to a large audience and also for Podcasts looking to branch out. It’s really easy to upload etc.. There are also special packages available for those uploading load of content to give them priority and good exposure on the Vuze Network.

One area I think that Vuze could improve is with the extra content. There should be a minimal browser built in to allow you to view the community pages without having to kick-start Firefox. This would give it a seamless affect and just be handy in general.

All things considered however, this is a spectacular piece of software and one I’ll be using a lot from now on. I think web based video torrents are having their final farewells. 9/10

• Watch Free Movies Without Downloading any Software – October 5, 2011
• Hotdog Movies: Watch Movies Online for Free without Downloading any Software – September 23, 2010
• SMELLIT: Smellivision for your Video Games and Movies – October 21, 2011
• 2 Tools to Turn YouTube into a Genre-Based Radio Station – October 3, 2011
• YouTube To Launch Movies On Demand Service: Key iTunes Competitor – April 26, 2011

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