An often overlooked aspect of BitTorrent downloading is the magic of "throttling," whereby you periodically adjust the settings of the torrents running in your client server in order to achieve a desired result. Now what’s the desired result you ask? Well, it could be a variety of things. It could be to simply maintain your [...]

Ah, it’s good to be back! A stay in Cancun and some Interweb problems back home have kept me from my column for a couple of weeks but I’m back and ready to go. Not long ago, Pearl Jam made history by releasing the first-ever single to have topped the charts thanks to online distribution, [...]

In the aftermath of the recent raid on The Pirate Bay offices in Sweden, the following message has been posted on their site: In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Swedish National Criminal Police showed a search warrant to Rix|Port80 personnell. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Rix|Port80 and was directed at The Pirate [...]

PeerFactor released today a new service allowing to share files with friends. http://www.peerfactor.fr/send/ It is based on their grid network based on their volunteer community. You only need to upload files to the central servers and get a link to share with your friends by email. If the files are donwloaded a lot, a mini-P2P [...]