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The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2 is making a comeback as the most pirated movie on the web after spending several weeks in the top 10 a few months ago when the movie first came out.
It was just a poor TS copy then, but it's now available in glorious detail as a DVD rip. The upside is that this will be th... |
18 February 2013
14:11 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company, is getting ready to roll out its peer-to-peer file sharing tool, no, not BitTorrent itself or uTorrent, but the sharing app it has been testing recently.It's in beta now, it's got a name, BitTorrent is calling it SoShare and you can sign up to use it straight away. SoShare uses BitT... |
15 February 2013
15:21 GMT |
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Demonoid, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers and indexers out there, was shut down, seemingly for good, last August. There have been some small signs of life since, but it doesn't seem like the site is coming back anytime soon.The reason for this was a criminal investigation against some of its alleged ... |
12 February 2013
14:45 GMT |
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Wreck It Ralph continues to be the most pirated movie of the week, sitting in the top spot for the second week in a row after debuting there. It's one of the best animations of 2012 so its popularity is not surprising.
Further down in the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, there's some trading o... |
11 February 2013
08:06 GMT |
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that online piracy is the modern version of “an age-old crime,” more precisely, stealing.
While the Bureau takes the theft of intellectual property very seriously, it appears that some of the agency’s employees are also in the habit of using B... |
11 February 2013
07:16 GMT |
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The deluge of DVD screeners hasn't stopped, this week's most pirated movie being the popular animated film Wreck It Ralph, though there are a couple of new entries in there that have arrived via the regular, illegal channels.
Overall, the number of screeners is going down, for a while all the top 10 downlo... |
4 February 2013
06:41 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay documentary is coming a week from now, but if you can't handle the wait, director Simon Klose has now put out a new clip from the movie. It's not a trailer – you can find that here, it's an actual (albeit small) extract from the documentary itself.
Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde t... |
30 January 2013
11:55 GMT |
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After a deluge of DVD screener rips, thanks to the Oscars and all the other awards of the season, retail DVD and Blu-ray rips are making a comeback on BitTorrent. Incidentally, the Oscars are still a month away so there's still time to catch up and see all the nominees, preferably by going out to a theater.
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28 January 2013
06:21 GMT |
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KickassTorrents has been down for a day or so now, leaving pirates scattering to any of the other BitTorrent sites around. But it's back now, it seems that the domain name problems have been fixed and the site has been working for a few minutes now, it was showing the nginx (its webserver) welcome page only a ... |
28 January 2013
04:01 GMT |
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In recent years, KickassTorrents has become one of the biggest and most popular BitTorrent sites out there, especially as some of the old popular ones were shut down or disappeared. And so far, it managed to stay out of legal trouble. So when the site went down earlier today, it's easy to understand why people t... |
27 January 2013
16:21 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company behind the technology with the same name and behind the BitTorrent and uTorrent clients, has been looking to branch out for a while now. It's trying to turn its technology into a legitimate business, with varying degrees of success.
Mostly, it has relied on BitTorrent and uTorrent'... |
25 January 2013
04:53 GMT |
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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent this week are pretty much the same as last week, with only a couple of additions. They have changed places though, Django Unchained which was number 1 last week, dropped to the third spot leaving Silver Linings Playbook to claim the top spot, jumping from the fourth p... |
21 January 2013
05:01 GMT |
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Even though the Windows Store is constantly growing bigger, there’s no BitTorrent client available for Windows RT users who wish to download files via this high-speed protocol. The jailbreaking community comes to the rescue with the first two builds of a recompiled version of MonoTorrent, so those of you who h... |
16 January 2013
05:25 GMT |
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Vuze, the popular BitTorrent client for Macs formerly known as Azureus, has received a new maintenance update which introduces a tracker-merging feature and the ability to drag items out of a UPnP Media Server to a device, or outside the boundaries of the app.
Users who download the latest Vuze beta (4.8.1.3 beta 8)... |
15 January 2013
19:41 GMT |
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This week's top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent follows a similar pattern to last week's chart, most of the movies are recent releases grabbed from DVD screeners, most likely those sent to reviewers ahead of the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
The top downloaded movie is Quentin Tarantino's lat... |
14 January 2013
05:21 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company, has been working on both educating the public on the benefits of the technology and expanding its use. BitTorrent Surf, a BitTorrent client that also happens to be a Chrome extension does the latter. It makes it possible to put a full client inside your browser and grab content via BitTorrent... |
12 January 2013
08:11 GMT |
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Transmission, an Open Source cross-platform BitTorrent client that strives to be as simple as possible, is now at version 2.76.
The new version of Transmission, 2.76, comes with a large number of fixes and changes, but also a few improvements.
Highlights of Transmission 2.76:
• The error logging has been impr... |
9 January 2013
10:48 GMT |
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There are plenty of "boxes" that offer ways of hooking up your TV to the internet or of serving digital content to the big screen. And with CES underway, more are bound to come. But the BBK BitTorrent Box is a somewhat special and its name should tell you why.
The BBK BitTorrent Box is the first Android-powered dev... |
9 January 2013
09:23 GMT |
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The well-known P2P file sharing client Transmission has been updated this week with a slew of tweaks and fixes, including one minor change for Macintosh customers. Changes to be noticed by users on all platforms include better error logging when user-provided scripts can't be executed, a tweak to the “Tim... |
9 January 2013
05:07 GMT |
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With 2012 out of the way, the file sharing world and the BitTorrent world in particular look quite different at the start of 2013 than they did a year ago.
In the first category, MegaUpload is gone, in the latter, BTjunkie and Demonoid are as well. But that only means that others rise up to take their pla... |
7 January 2013
18:21 GMT |
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Demonoid, the BitTorrent site you just can't keep down, may be on its way back, again. It was shut down during summer and it looked like the end as much of the team was, allegedly, arrested. The tracker actually came back, for a while last year, but it went down again.
There were no signs of life from the site ... |
7 January 2013
05:52 GMT |
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In the first week of 2013 the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent was very much expected, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Next on the list is Tarantino's latest hit, Django Unchained. Both of these are new entries and they've only been in theaters for a few weeks.
Other new entries are The Impossible at... |
7 January 2013
04:01 GMT |
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The popular BitTorrent client for Mac users, Vuze has been promoted to version 4.8.1.3 Beta 6 which adds updated library views, new keyboard shortcuts and tweaks relating to the BitTorrent speed test.Vuze is a very powerful BitTorrent client and many Mac users around the world enjoy using it exclusively for downloadi... |
5 January 2013
14:41 GMT |
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While the top 10 list of the most downloaded movies of the year may be a bit surprising, the top 10 most downloaded TV shows of the year is anything but.
Game of Thrones is the most pirated TV show in the world, with an average 4.28 million people grabbing just one episode.
It came in second place last year, behin... |
28 December 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Aria2, a utility for downloading files that supports multiple protocols such as HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink, is now at version 1.16.1.Aria2 1.16.1 features a command-line interface, segmented downloading, client certificate authentication in HTTPS, custom HTTP Header support, and more.Highlights of Aria2 1... |
28 December 2012
13:38 GMT |
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Pirates have been busy downloading their favorite movies in 2012 as much as ever. As the year draws to an end, TorrentFreak looked at the data amassed over the course of the year and put together a list of the top 10 most downloaded movies. The most popular movie of the year may be a surprise for most people, it tur... |
27 December 2012
16:31 GMT |
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While there’s no standalone BitTorrent client available on Windows 8 platforms for the time being, the uTorrent Client is one of the best choices to connect to the uTorrent WebUI and manage the active torrents.
The application has been updated a few days ago, so it now features documentation to help those look... |
27 December 2012
10:18 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company behind the notorious protocol, is naturally sick of all the bad rap BitTorrent gets. The company itself is entirely legal and actually works to promote artists and content.
Still, plenty of people, knowingly or not, associate BitTorrent with piracy and nothing else and work to have it banned... |
19 December 2012
16:46 GMT |
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There’s no BitTorrent client available in the Windows Store for the time being, but those who want to manage their torrents from the Modern UI of their Windows 8 device can always install uTorrent Client.
This application connects to the uTorrent WebUI and gives users the power to view and add torrents to the ... |
19 December 2012
05:22 GMT |
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Vuze Client, an end-to-end application that acts as a complete Bittorrent downloader without slowing down the computer, is now at version 4.8.0.0.
Vuze Bittorrent Client 4.8.1.2 is relatively lightweight and can be used to download torrents and even act as a search engine.
The application features a few important o... |
19 December 2012
03:32 GMT |
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The Dark Knight Rises continues to dominate the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, as compiled by TorrentFreak.
It's been several weeks since the last film in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy was made available on BitTorrent, in a decent quality copy, and it's been the most downloaded mov... |
17 December 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Demonoid's latest run hasn't been particularly long, even by its standards. A bit over a month after it came back online, Demonoid seems to be gone again. Demonoid.me is down and none of the trackers at inferno.demonoid.me is responding, TorrentFreak found. Demonoid has been down for long periods before so... |
17 December 2012
04:15 GMT |
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FrostWire, a BitTorrent client (formerly a Gnutella client) that’s the result of a collaborative effort from hundreds of Open Source and freelance developers, is now at version 5.5.1.
Highlights of FrostWire 5.5.1:
• A new Clear Inactive button on transfers has been implemented;
• A new setting has ... |
12 December 2012
14:05 GMT |
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Opera, an Internet browser developed by Opera Software that provides support for RSS feeds, BitTorrent, IRC chatting, contact management, and many other features, is now at version 12.12 RC.
Opera Software has released the first release candidate from the upcoming 12.12 branch of Opera and hinted that it would proba... |
12 December 2012
02:59 GMT |
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The Dark Knight Rises continues to be the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent this week, for the fourth week in a row.
It's probably going to stay that way for a while longer as there aren't that many big releases yet to be made available on BitTorrent.
Christmas is just around the corner though and we&... |
10 December 2012
15:51 GMT |
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The folks over at BitTorrent have just released a new version of uTorrent that allows users to find and download torrents directly to their Android smartphones.
Although the application is still in beta stages, developers claim uTorrent is made to be simple, fast, and free, which means there are no speed limits or s... |
8 December 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Blocking BitTorrent sites has little effect on piracy, in many cases, it even has little effect on the sites themselves.
Case in point, only a couple of days after Italy decided that the solution to piracy was to block even more sites "because this time it's definitely going to work," the targeted sites are fi... |
7 December 2012
10:25 GMT |
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There's some sort of competition in Europe to see who can block the most websites and censor the web the best. Russia has no competition, but further to the West, things are heating up.
Despite the good work put in by the UK, the Netherlands and some valiant effort by Sweden, Italy always finds a way of pushin... |
5 December 2012
05:37 GMT |
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Just around the time The Pirate Bay launched The Promo Bay, BitTorrent, the company behind the controversial technology, starts to highlight bigger and bigger success stories of people who used platforms like BitTorrent and free content to get a lot of attention, a lot of goodwill, a lot of fans and a lot of money.
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3 December 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Unsurprisingly, The Dark Knight Rises continues to lead the top 10 most pirated movies on BitTorrent chart. It landed a couple of weeks ago in the top spot and has stayed there since. It's very likely it's going to stay there for a while longer.
That said, there are several new entries in this week's ... |
3 December 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Being "featured" in a major site like The Pirate Bay may not be most artists' biggest dream, but for plenty it's a big break, the amount of new fans these artists get far outweighs the value of the "lost sales."
As such, more and more creators have a more open view towards piracy, some even going so far a... |
30 November 2012
08:50 GMT |
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uTorrent is undoubtedly the most popular BitTorrent client right now, as it provides the best mix of performance and resource usage, regardless of the Windows version you’re currently running.
While the standard settings should be enough for the average Joe who wants nothing more than to download files through... |
27 November 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Private BitTorrent tracker BitSoup has been under attack for the past couple of weeks by hackers who claim to be part of Anonymous. The attackers say they've found evidence that the website’s owners have misused the money raised through a Hurricane Sandy fundraiser. According to TorrentFreak, when they f... |
26 November 2012
09:52 GMT |
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BitTorrent, one of the few amazingly popular torrent applications, is about to make the jump on the Android platform.
Although the software has been available for download on Google Play store for quite some time now, it’s still in beta.
Even so, BitTorrent for Android has many things to offer, such as the a... |
21 November 2012
21:31 GMT |
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The folks at BitTorrent have just added a new option to their uTorrent application for Android devices, which will allow users to download torrents only via Wi-Fi.
With the Wi-Fi-only option, users will be sure their torrent downloads will only go through Wi-Fi network. Besides adding this Wi-Fi-only option, develop... |
21 November 2012
17:31 GMT |
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It appears that the actions of Zeiko Anonymous, the hacker responsible for taking down numerous BitTorrent websites with the aid of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, haven’t gone unnoticed. The hacktivists behind AnonymousIRC have taken over his Twitter account.
“ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED BY (@... |
19 November 2012
02:50 GMT |
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For all the fuss over piracy, BitTorrent and all the programs used to download files through peer-to-peer methods don't seem to be any worse off than a few years ago. If anything, it is the opposite.
In fact, the concept of downloading files from everyone else connected to a torrent, at once, is branching into... |
17 November 2012
05:16 GMT |
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Zeiko Anonymous, the hacker whose main goal seems to be disrupting BitTorrent websites, has launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against three other popular sites: BitSnoop, 1337x.org and RLSLOG.
The hacker started his “piracy attacks” after private BitTorrent tracker What.cd refused to ... |
16 November 2012
07:01 GMT |
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has submitted a list of websites that the organization considers to be a threat to copyright owners.
RIAA is asking the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and Innovation to ensure that the sites have the same fate as Megaupload.
Torren... |
15 November 2012
09:49 GMT |
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A number of recording artists, led by eccentric billionaire Alki David, have filed a second lawsuit against CNET and CBS Interactive. The plaintiffs hope to convince a court to block the company from distributing BitTorrent applications via its download website, Download.com.
The complaint, provided by TechDirt, all... |
14 November 2012
10:48 GMT |
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