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There are only three new entries in the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent last week, but they've all made it to the top five. Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy's Tower Heist shot in straight at number one.
The Three Musketeers, the previous week's number one was the second most popular movie on t... |
13 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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A few years in the making, magnet links are finally becoming a reality for BitTorrent users. Leading the charge is The Pirate Bay which recently switched to magnet links by default and will drop .torrent files almost entirely soon.
In fact, The Pirate Bay has just announced that come February 29, most .torrent files... |
13 February 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The Three Musketeers was the most downloaded movie over BitTorrent in the first week of February. The movie made its "debut" on the file-sharing network last week and shot up straight to number one.
The previous week's top downloaded movie, the Christmas blockbuster The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo moved down a ... |
7 February 2012
13:51 GMT |
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BTjunkie, one of the largest BitTorrent sites out there, has called it a day. After seven years in the trenches its administrators have had enough and are shutting down the site. Their move is entirely voluntary, the feds were not knocking on their front door, at least as far as they know, but it is no doubt in the a... |
6 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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BitTorrent released a new application, BitTorrent Live, designed to let you stream live from your computer, while maintaining a low network load. The same torrent theory applies, but the peers connected to the stream send out the data with a delay of several seconds.The released application is a small executable, ava... |
3 February 2012
10:56 GMT |
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David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo entered straight at the top of the most downloaded movies over BitTorrent last week. The anticipated ecranisation of the very popular mystery and thriller novel, the US version as there has already been a Swedish version of the book, has proven quite popular with b... |
31 January 2012
10:03 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay hasn't been in the news quite so often lately, but that just means that the site is moving forward as it always had. It's still the biggest BitTorrent indexer out there despite the many, many attempts to take it down.
But at the heart of the Pirate Bay is not BitTorrent, it's not even f... |
25 January 2012
11:41 GMT |
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It seems that new movies have been particularly attractive to pirates last week as five of the top 10 most downloaded movies, as compiled by TorrentFreak, are new entries, aka new movies to the BitTorrent network, not necessarily new releases. The top three spots are filled by new entries, Special Forces coming in a... |
23 January 2012
18:21 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is once again leading the way in the BitTorrent way as it has announced that it is making magnet links the default download link rather than the link to the .torrent file as until now. The Pirate Bay was also the first big BitTorrent indexer to start using magnet links. The site believes the technology... |
13 January 2012
05:11 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company, is celebrating a milestone, its BitTorrent clients now have more than 150 million monthly active users. Between uTorrent and the BitTorrent Mainline client, the company boasts that it's seeing 50 percent more users than it did in December 2010, a year ago.
50 million new users in one ye... |
11 January 2012
16:01 GMT |
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With 2012 well underway now, things are going back to normal for most people. Movie fans though, those that prefer the BitTorrent method of distribution, are gearing up for the Christmas blockbusters they didn't get to see yet.
In this week's top 10 downloaded movies over BitTorrent, covering the first wee... |
11 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The latest product from BitTorrent is called Share and its purpose is easy to infer from the name itself. There are tens of sharing apps to choose from, so what’s so special about this one and how can it be among the top preferences of the users? Unlike the myriad of services out there, Share doesn’t imp... |
6 January 2012
08:04 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company, has launched a very interesting new app/service simply dubbed Share. It is a file sharing app, meant as a way of sharing files with a few friends. It fills a special niche in the file sharing world, but it does it in a novel way.
Share uses BitTorrent, it makes sense considering its creator,... |
6 January 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Besides movies and music, to a lesser degree, games make up the bulk of BitTorrent downloads, if only because of their size. While nowhere as popular as the year's top movies, several games proved very enticing to pirates out there.
TorrentFreak put together a top of the most downloaded games over BitTorrent in... |
4 January 2012
14:41 GMT |
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The controversial YouHaveDownloaded service was utilized to appoint another French government institution whose members were caught downloading illegal content from torrent sites.
After 250 of their 65,000 IP addresses were identified as being used to share all sorts of content, from games to adult movies, the Fren... |
3 January 2012
09:49 GMT |
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With only a few days left in the year, it makes sense to look back and sum it all up. Everyone is looking into their own back yard as TorrentFreak did and it came up with a top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent this year. Fast Five took the number one spot, though its competitors were close by. The movie was d... |
28 December 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Recounting the year that's almost passed has been a favorite activity recently, for search engines in particular. While Google gave us the wonderful insight that Rebecca Black was the fastest growing search of the year, even bigger than Google+, TorrentFreak had something else in mind. As you've probably g... |
27 December 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Christmas may or may not be the perfect time to watch movies, depending on what counts as tradition at your house, and the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent of last week should paint an interesting picture of what people watched during the holidays.
A popular title for a few weeks now, The Inbetweeners Mov... |
27 December 2011
10:47 GMT |
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After they’ve been discovered as illegally downloading copyrighted materials from torrent sites, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) representatives came forward to deny the allegations, stating that a third-party vendor is actually behind the addresses.
At the time, they were found to have downlo... |
21 December 2011
09:14 GMT |
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There are a lot of reasons why people use BitTorrent or other file-sharing services and technologies to pirate movies, TV shows, music and so on, and most of them don't have to do with price. The main reasons why people turn to BitTorrent are ease of use and availability.If a movie isn't slated to be launch... |
19 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Three new entries have made it in this week's top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent. At the same time, the top new entry of last week is now at the number one spot overall.Moneyball, Contagion and Pressed are the new titles which have been very popular with file-sharing movie aficionados/pirates. The chart... |
19 December 2011
11:01 GMT |
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The now famous YouHaveDownloaded websites, which monitors 20% of the public BitTorrent downloads, helped identify two other organizations that normally shouldn’t be involved in such practices. The first copyright infringer is the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), one of the companies that&rsquo... |
19 December 2011
03:09 GMT |
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Nicholas Sarkozy, the president of France and one of the most powerful men of Europe, was busted today after journalists from a French news site, armed with Élysée Palace IPs, took a peak to see what has been downloaded from the president’s residence. If the three-strike piracy law adopted by Fr... |
15 December 2011
11:02 GMT |
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The recently released website, Youhavedownloaded.com, turned out to be a great opportunity for piracy supporters to prove that even those who fight long and expensive battles against copyright infringers don’t always obey the rules they make.
After obtaining the IP-ranges of some major Hollywood studios, the g... |
14 December 2011
08:39 GMT |
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A newly released Russian website makes sure that all the individuals who download from BitTorrent website are monitored, their identities, or at least their IP’s being published online for anyone to see, along with the actual files they have downloaded.
YouHaveDownloaded.com is a site that monitors 20% of all ... |
14 December 2011
03:25 GMT |
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The Inbetweeners Movie entered directly at the top spot of this week’s top 10 most downloaded movies over BitTorrent, as compiled by TorrentFreak.
The British comedy based on the TV series of the same name has proved rather popular in theaters and, considering the younger age of the average BitTorrent user, its popu... |
12 December 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Unlike Opera, BitTorrent need a bit more than two release candidates to release a stable version for their torrent client, µTorrent. They reached the 7th RC version, which features only fixes.
The development team mended a bug that caused VLC to crash upon the second use, erroneous hash failures (multihash in ... |
6 December 2011
05:47 GMT |
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It seems that BitTorrent fans were content watching the same movies they did last week, as the two most popular, i.e. downloaded, movies on the P2P network were the same, "Cowboys and Aliens" and "Conan the Barbarian."
Still, there's a newcomer at number three, the recently released "In Time" has been received ... |
5 December 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Despite a less-than-warm reception, especially from the critics, Cowboys and Aliens is enjoying the title of the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent for the past week. Universal Pictures and DreamWorks must be thrilled.
Conan the Barbarian held the honor last week, but it has since slid down to the number two spot. ... |
28 November 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Earlier this year, in an effort to appease copyright holders, mostly the music industry, Google started to apply some self-censorship to its searches. It started removing suggestions and auto-complete for things like "bittorrent," "torrent," "rapidshare" and so on.
The ham-fisted approach didn't really do much ... |
24 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Last week, the police detained a 19-year-old law student after the anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen informed them that he was running a blog in which he allegedly educated users on how to break copyright laws.
Furthermore, according to TorrentFreak, they also suspected him of being the mastermind behind a mass... |
22 November 2011
04:35 GMT |
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Fewer new entries this week and "Conan the Barbarian" gets to keep the 'title' of the most downloaded movie via BitTorrent. Though the movie hasn't exactly gotten the best reviews, it seems to be a fan favorite, at least for the moment.
Three new entries are sprinkled among the top 10, "Cowboys and Al... |
21 November 2011
09:22 GMT |
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If there's one thing that the top downloaded movies over BitTorrent this week show is that pirates enjoy new stuff very much. Five titles in the top 10 are new entries.Movie lovers may notice that some of the new titles may not exactly be that 'new' since they've been released in theaters for mont... |
14 November 2011
08:48 GMT |
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BitTorrent Inc. promised last year, when they released the uTorrent Server for Linux, a client version of the extremely popular uTorrent torrent downloader."While the exact specs as well as the timing are still being developed, we expect uTorrent for Linux to be available for download later this summer." said a BitTo... |
10 November 2011
19:21 GMT |
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Pirates may not like to pay for their content all that much, or maybe they just don't want to hassle with the few 'legal' alternatives they have, but they sure like movies.They have their standards as well, so any self respecting pirate will wait for a DVD rip to be available before firing up BitTorren... |
7 November 2011
11:10 GMT |
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The recent debates regarding piracy and the controversies that surround torrent websites make most of those who use such services find a way to make themselves anonymous while surfing the web.The partial results of a survey made by The Research Bay ( the new name of The Pirate Bay) in collaboration with Cybernorms we... |
22 October 2011
05:44 GMT |
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BitTorrent developers are experiencing a huge increase in the number of Mac users, which is why they’re “stepping things up” with the release of a new stable µTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline for Mac, as well as a new Web interface for the iPad coded in HTML5.The people at BitTorrent are finall... |
20 October 2011
15:41 GMT |
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It's obvious that movie studios don't love pirates. Well, they hate them actually and would do anything to get rid of the millions of freeloading pirates out there. But, pirates are people too, right? Just don't tell Hollywood that. And pirates love movies just like the rest of us, perhaps even mo... |
17 October 2011
10:51 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company behind the popular file sharing protocol but also the very popular uTorrent client, is looking at ways to make money from its technology but also to expand its use.
BitTorrent, in essence, is a distribution method and, with a built-in audience of over 100 million people, it could be a great... |
15 October 2011
06:11 GMT |
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The new release, Alpha 3.1 build 25788, comes with a batch of fixes, and, for the users of the plus version, with improved compatibility for the supported devices as far as transcoding is concerned.This version of the BitTorrent client fixes the portable mode of the app and now the DNA cache directory is no longer cr... |
14 October 2011
03:43 GMT |
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The company behind uTorrent released an alpha version for its upcoming 3.1 version, premiering the new tools its been advertising the past months. The most notable: integration support for Android, iOS, PlayStation 3 and Xbox devices.The upcoming stable release of uTorrent 3.1 will mark a cornerstone in BitTorrent In... |
23 September 2011
13:19 GMT |
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The Transmission application, a popular BitTorrent client among Mac users, has received a new update that contains a bunch of new features, as well as fixes for all supported platforms. Mac users in particular have a few changes to note.Originally built to be a powerful, yet lightweight BitTorrent client, Transmissio... |
19 September 2011
05:02 GMT |
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The latest data from the BitTorrent world shows a more diverse cast of BitTorrent clients dividing up the market, though there are still only a few clients battling for position.Surprising no one, uTorrent is on top of the pile, with almost half of BitTorrent file-sharers running it.The BitTorrent-focused blog Torren... |
17 September 2011
10:21 GMT |
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When most people think about file sharing, with a negative connotation, they think of BitTorrent. The protocol, used for sharing large files via a peer-2-peer network, has gotten a lot of bad reputation over the years. People using it have sued countless times and big BitTorrent related sites have come under fire as ... |
29 August 2011
05:31 GMT |
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In the world of file sharing BitTorrent is king and in the world of BitTorrent uTorrent is king. No surprise then that the BitTorrent client now has 100 million active users. It's the most popular client out there, by a fair margin, but the milestone also underlines that there is a huge market potential that Bit... |
18 August 2011
12:06 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the well known file sharing cross-platform protocol, has gotten a new update on the Mac. The BitTorrent Mac client has reached version 7.0.2 Build 23548 which, according to our tests, is now fully compatible with OS X Lion.BitTorrent version 7 is a native cocoa client for Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard) and up. It... |
11 August 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Speed and simplicity is what pushed uTorrent to become the most popular BitTorrent client out there, with about 100 million users. It's a great app and the team has managed to add plenty of new features without really altering the core experience.But BitTorrent, the company behind the protocol and the uTorrent c... |
18 July 2011
12:41 GMT |
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The people behind the Transmission Project have announced a new release of their popular BitTorrent client for Mac users, Transmission 2.32.
The new Transmission, also available for Linux users, fixes a bunch of errors that are common among all platforms, including Mac.
Version 2.32 fixes an error caused by som... |
30 June 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Along with the long-awaited, uTorrent 3.0, BitTorrent the company behind the popular client, has also released uChat an interesting new app still in beta which, as the name implies, enables users to chat within uTorrent by using a distributed, P2P architecture. The interesting thing about is the technology behind uCh... |
24 June 2011
06:01 GMT |
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After many months of waiting, or testing as the case may be, uTorrent 3.0 is finally here. The popular BitTorrent client comes with plenty of new features for power and casual users alike. Among the most touted new features are media streaming before finishing the download, a simple web interface for remote control a... |
23 June 2011
12:05 GMT |
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