Microsoft Creates Leech-While-You-Sleep BitTorrent Hardware
It could be a private BitTorrent user’s dream come true. Imagine your overall ratio being at 0.98 right before you put your computer into sleep mode and waking up the next morning to discover your ratio is now at 1.25 after bringing your computer back out of sleep mode. That’s exactly the kind [...]
BTAccel – the Web-Based BitTorrent Client
Transfer large files to devices that can’t run BitTorrent, circumvent network P2P throttling, or use on networks with poor upload capacity.
BTAccel has created a new, web-based BitTorrent client that offers file-sharers some interesting new download options. Users need only a web browser to download content, giving devices like smart phones and game consoles that cannot [...]
Pirate Bay Trial Verdict: Guilty as Charged
BitTorrent tracker site founders sentenced to a year in prison, and ordered to pay 30 million kronor ($3.6 million USD) in damages to the entertainment industry, but remain defiant, comparing trial to “The Karate Kid” and vow to pull of a “crane” at the end.
The four founders of The Pirate Bay, Hans Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid [...]
SwarmScreen Increases Privacy for Vuze
Plugin for the BitTorrent client hides real download traffic by connecting to randomly selected torrent trackers, protecting users from newly discovered technique to map out BitTorrent swarms with 86% accuracy.
Vuze, formerly Azureus, has always distinguished itself by enabling users to install a wide variety of plugins to customize the BitTorrent client and the downloading experience. [...]
OneSwarm v0.6 Released
Darknet BitTorrent-based P2P application adds features like secure, point-to-point encrypted chat and more.
Back in February I mentioned how some of the same researchers at the University of Washington that brought us BitTyrant had developed a new privacy preserving file-sharing client called OneSwarm. Today those same researchers have announced the release of version 0.6.
New [...]
FBI Investigates “Wolverine” BitTorrent Leak
Follows 20th Century Fox’s warning that the workprint contained watermarks enabling it to find the source and prosecute those responsible.
Ever since I reported last week about how a workprint copy of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” leaked to BitTorrent the FBI and 20th Century Fox have been working overtime to find the source of the leak [...]
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” Workprint Leaked to BitTorrent
Appears on BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere well ahead of its scheduled May 1st release date.
Every so often BitTorrent users are treated to a workprint of a movie many are anxious to see. The most famous, or infamous, depending on which side of the fence you’re on, was the leak of a rough Star Wars 3 [...]
Australian ISP Defending BitTorrent-Using Subscribers in Court
Refuses to admit customers engage in copyright infringement, and questioned whether it’s one-to-one nature and transfer of pieces of a work rather than it’s whole qualifies as making them “available to the public” in violation of copyright law.
iiNet, Australia’s 3rd largest ISP, has been quietly defending BitTorrent-using broadband subscribers there in Federal Court.
The Australian Federation [...]
Pirate Bay Adds “Share on Facebook” Feature
BitTorrent tracker site now lets you share tracker links with Facebook friends.
The Pirate Bay has added an cool new feature that allows you to share torrent tracker links with your friends on Facebook.
Now it’s obviously a bit sketchy to begin linking to copyrighted material, but so long as it’s a link to a webpage [...]
Record Label Joins Forces with Mininova to Distribute, Sell Music
Beep! Beep! Back up the Truck makes its complete digital discography available for free downlaod on the BitTorrent tracker site.
Mininova has been on the cutting edge of BitTorrent tracker sites experimenting with new content delivery services for music artists.
It’s “content distribution” feature lets artists, like my buddy DJ Destructo Bunny, whom I uploaded to the [...]
