“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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The most needed feature was the option to rate and add comments to torrent files added to uTorrent. It seems as though uTorrent has been behind the times in terms of features, as other torrent sites and most websites have added commenting and ratings features many years ago.

Another feature new to uTorrent 3.0 is the option to stream video before the download finishes. Streaming can be used to preview video files or to watch while downloading.

A full overview of all the new features in uTorrent 3.0 and the latest beta are available on the uTorrent website. Have you tried it? Please let us know what you think below.

via TorrentFreak

• Google Starts Censoring Its Search: No More BitTorrent, RapidShare and More – January 27, 2011
• uTorrent 16% faster than Vuze – April 11, 2010
• uTorrent Paid Version Coming – July 18, 2011
• FrostWire Stops Using Gnutella and Goes All Bittorrent on Their P2P Network – July 6, 2011
• KickassTorrents Drops the .com Domain in Favour of Something a Bit More Secure – April 8, 2011

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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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“Well, yeah, I know that” you might say “those are called magnet links”. Yes, it is true, magnet links exists already; and they don’t use the .torrent file to download, they use DHT protocol. But unfortunately, magnet links are not so easy to find; even though there are some popular clients (like Vuze and uTorrent) that already support magnetized links.

But now, you can find those very easy with the Firefox Add-on Magnetiser. You can install it, look for the Torrent that you want to download, click on magnetise, select the torrent client, and your download will start.

One small consideration though, the Add-On it is not officially out just yet (officially meaning that you can download it directly from Mozilla site); but you can download this add-on from here (just drag-n-drop the .xpi file intro Firefox.

• Firefox Add-on: Page Speed – June 12, 2009
• FrostWire Stops Using Gnutella and Goes All Bittorrent on Their P2P Network – July 6, 2011
• Firefox:Tab Scope Previews you Tabs – May 4, 2011
• How to Add Speed Dial to FireFox – May 2, 2011
• uTorrent 3.0 Adds Ratings, Comments and Streaming – April 20, 2011

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