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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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The iOS version of Transmission, the popular BitTorrent client, is now available for iOS devices. Jailbroken users who wish to download torrents onto their iDevice can access the software at repo.insanelyi.com via Cydia, though Softpedia does not encourage such practices.
While the repository itself is questionable ... |
26 May 2011
03:09 GMT |
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Netflix has now become the single biggest source of traffic in North America, at least if you choose to display the data from a specific point of view. Netflix is the biggest downstream traffic source during peak hours, making up 29.7 of it in North America.This would seem like a win over peer-to-peer traffic, which ... |
18 May 2011
08:20 GMT |
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The Intel-only Transmission 2.30 has reached final status on Mac OS X platforms, adding µTP, UDP tracker and Multiscrape support, the ability to remove all completed (finished seeding) transfers, and more.A popular BitTorrent client also known as one of the best peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications, Tra... |
17 May 2011
12:21 GMT |
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The first beta of the highly anticipated uTorrent 3.0 has been released. Many of the new features have been in testing for quite some time now, but this is the first time uTorrent 3.0 has reached a state where it's mostly complete and ready for wide testing.uTorrent is the most popular BitTorrent client in the w... |
20 April 2011
05:45 GMT |
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The popular BitTorrent client Transmission has reached version 2.30 Beta 3, which brings µTP support and interface tweaks on Mac OS X, in addition to other changes shared by all supported platforms.For all versions of Transmission (Linux, Mac OS X), the update delivers UDP tracker support, multi-scrape support,... |
18 April 2011
07:23 GMT |
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Even though some of us here are true fans of the Opera web browser, and even though this report might catch Apple’s eye and see Opera for Mac subsequently pulled from the Mac App Store, we must report that Apple seems to have gone against its own guidelines when approving the app.
Opera Software was proud to... |
4 March 2011
03:48 GMT |
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In a surprising move, considering its past actions, or rather inactions, Google has gotten involved with a lawsuit concerning BitTorrent search engines. isoHunt has been entangled in a lawsuit brought against it by the movie industry for half a decade now. But Google has only now offered its official opinion on the m... |
23 February 2011
09:59 GMT |
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The Transmission Project has announced the release of Transmission 2.20 Final, the stable result of a relatively long beta testing process which culminates with a hefty bag of fixes and tweaks to improve the popular BitTorrent client.
Available immediately to Softpedia readers rocking Mac OS X, as well as to those... |
7 February 2011
04:05 GMT |
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A new version of the popular Transmission application is available for download from Softpedia. The updated beta contains a large amount of fixes, including tweaks targeting Mac users in particular.Transmission is a BitTorrent client and a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing application with select code licensed ... |
4 February 2011
08:48 GMT |
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Google has started blocking certain 'piracy-related' terms from Google Instant and search suggestions. Anything including words like "bittorrent," "torrent," "rapidshare," "megaupload," or "utorrent" will lead to a blank page in Google Instant and no auto-completion suggestions. The move was actually previe... |
27 January 2011
04:32 GMT |
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BitTorrent is the world's most popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, but, since it's used to distribute a lot of pirated material, it's not a favorite of content creators. BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the protocol and the most popular client software, has been working on changing that and ... |
7 January 2011
04:47 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company behind the uTorrent and the BitTorrent Mainline client, has announced that its two products now have over 100 million monthly active users. The company also shared other impressive numbers showing that the protocol is as popular as ever."This is an exciting day for our team. Our vision is to b... |
4 January 2011
04:05 GMT |
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With the year coming to an end, we've seen all manner of search engines highlight the top queries and trends of the year. TorrentFreak focused on the BitTorrent scene. With data from KickassTorrents, one of the biggest up-and-coming BitTorrent indexers out there, the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2010 was created.The top... |
28 December 2010
04:08 GMT |
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Romanian antivirus vendor BitDefender has released a stand-alone malware scanner which integrates with µTorrent and can be used to check downloaded torrents for threats.µTorrent, intended to be called "micro torrent," but commonly referred to as utorrent, is the most popular BitTorrent client after Xunlei... |
22 December 2010
13:26 GMT |
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BitTorrent is labeled as one of the greatest peer-to-peer technology, and is certainly the most popular, yet the file-sharing protocol still relies on several centralized points for the users to either find the files they are looking for or each other. There have been several attempts at making BitTorrent less depend... |
9 December 2010
06:17 GMT |
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With the recent slew of home NAS solutions that have been reaching us, D-Link decided is just about time to refresh its consumer line with the two-bay D-Link ShareCenter Pulse that offers increased functionality as well as advanced power management making it one of the nicest home HAS servers available out there.Feat... |
6 December 2010
05:19 GMT |
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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized more than 70 domain names in a move to fight online file-sharing and counterfeiting. Users visiting any of the domains are redirected to a page notifying them that domains have been seized by US authorities.TorrentFreak, a blog dedicated to all things BitTorrent-relat... |
29 November 2010
06:37 GMT |
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uTorrent 2.2 has been released, the latest update to the very popular BitTorrent client. uTorrent 2.2 comes with a several big new features, chief among which is App Studio, a platform for JavaScript-based extensions and apps. It also comes with support for uTP, a new transfer protocol pioneered by the uTorrent team.... |
11 November 2010
09:43 GMT |
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The file-sharing world came under a bit of a shock last week when LimeWire effectively shut down. While the move should have come as no surprise to anyone, LimeWire has lost several lawsuits and was ordered to shut down previously, the story proved quite popular. The fact that millions of users suddenly found themsel... |
1 November 2010
11:05 GMT |
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Last week, developer Derek Kepner admitted that he was likely “on dangerous ground” having a BitTorrent-based application in the iTunes App Store. Today, he can confirm it, as Apple recently called the developer to inform him that his IS Drive application was getting yanked.“Just got a call from App... |
6 October 2010
09:54 GMT |
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A BitTorrent-based application called “IS Drive” was approved by Apple this week. Available for $4.99, the app allows you to check and manage the downloads in your ImageShack Drive account. For downloaded videos, users can even view thumbnails (if ImageShack is able to provide them).Basically, IS Drive al... |
3 October 2010
08:06 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay appeal started off today without too much drama and with only three of the four defendants present. The defense attorneys asked for the charges and damages to be dropped, while the prosecutors asked for the initial verdict to be upheld. Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm did not attend as he is s... |
28 September 2010
10:56 GMT |
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