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There hasn't been much change in this week's top 10 most downloaded movies over BitTorrent, though there are quite a few new entries. Straight at number one is Safe House, the Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds-starring thriller. Last week's number one, John Carter, is now down a peg to number two. T... |
28 May 2012
14:51 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay may be getting some support from ISPs in some places, but other BitTorrent sites are not so lucky. With The Pirate Bay already blocked in the country, Italy has now turned its eye on a popular alternative, KickAssTorrents. Unlike in some places, say the UK or the Netherlands, but very much like in... |
24 May 2012
15:41 GMT |
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With more and more countries scrambling to block The Pirate Bay you'd think that the site is finally over. That's not really the case, if anything, it's doing better than ever. But users in the UK and in other places where the site is censored are having a bit more trouble reaching it. There are count... |
23 May 2012
07:13 GMT |
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It's not just TV shows that pirates love, movies have always been quite popular. In the past week, a couple of new movies (new to BitTorrent) made their debut in the first two spots in the BitTorrent top 10 curated by TorrentFreak.
John Carter took the first place as the most downloaded movie in the week ending... |
21 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Private companies are continuing to play with what millions of internet users in India can and cannot see. Last week, several BitTorrent sites along with other stranger choices like Vimeo were blocked by at least one ISP. Now, others are joining, though the original block has been lifted in some cases.
There's ... |
17 May 2012
08:01 GMT |
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While there are plenty of people out to stop them, pirates don't seem too bothered. For all its attempts, all of Hollywood's latest flicks end up on BitTorrent and are quickly snatched up by movie-loving pirates. 21 Jump Street was the most popular movie on BitTorrent last week, aka the most downloaded. Th... |
14 May 2012
10:30 GMT |
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As long as there have been pirates, there have been people trying to stop them. Most of the time that's via lawsuits, draconian legislation, all sorts of blocks, limits and artificial hurdles for legitimate buyers, and generally spoiling everyone's fun, artist, pirate, or buyer alike.
But from time to time... |
14 May 2012
09:04 GMT |
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It seems that even pirates tire of the same old movies after a while as this week's top 10 most downloaded movies has three new entries, two of which sit at the top two spots. This Means War is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent in the week ending May 6th.
The movie proved very popular as it shot up to the... |
7 May 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Censorship, at the behest of movie studios or music labels, isn't, unfortunately, uncommon in most parts of the world. But even if The Pirate Bay was blocked in the UK by a court with little regard to due process, it's still a lot better than in India for example, where companies can have entire websites bl... |
5 May 2012
08:21 GMT |
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The latest Sherlock Holmes installment, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, has become a pirate favorite in recent weeks and shows no signs of becoming any less popular soon.
The movie entered the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, as compiled by TorrentFreak, three weeks ago at number three.
A week late... |
30 April 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol can't be budged from the top spot in the illustrious top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, but that doesn't mean things are static across the board. Four new entries made it to the top 10 this week, one proving so desirable that users put up with an inferior tele... |
10 April 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Wikipedia is the ultimate web success story, something made possible by the internet and one of the big examples of why the internet is so great. But the internet is only great if you can use it, which, even in the most developed parts of the world, is not always possible.
That shouldn't stop you from accessing... |
10 April 2012
09:05 GMT |
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A new version of the popular torrent client Transmission has been released with enhancements for all supported platforms, as well as with a handful of tweaks for Mac users in particular. Transmission 2.51 updates the bundled libnatpmp and miniupnp port forwarding libraries, adds environment variable options to have ... |
9 April 2012
05:02 GMT |
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Pirates are as enamoured with the latest Mission: Impossible flick as they have been in recent weeks, but a few new movies have made it to the top 10 most downloaded on BitTorrent, as compiled by TorrentFreak.
The Hunger Games, the already popular movie released this weekend, based on the popular book series, debute... |
2 April 2012
06:31 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay lawsuit's verdict was made final earlier this year, so things should be well and truly over by now. The four men associated with the site all got prison sentences and have to pay damages. But none of these is proving very simple. First, there's the issue of the prison sentences. Pirate Bay... |
30 March 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Three new entries made it in this week's top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, but the top three remains virtually unchanged, apart from a small switch.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol sits at the very top for the second week in a row, after debuting in the previous week.
We Bought a Zoo, also a ... |
26 March 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Those hoping to use IM to spread the word on a great band or movie they found via The Pirate Bay with their friends are out of luck. Windows Live Messenger is actively blocking any link to the popular BitTorrent site. Copyright-dependent industries have tried everything to block The Pirate Bay, but have failed in al... |
26 March 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Last week hasn't been particularly eventful, when it comes to movie sector of BitTorrent. There are only two new entries in the top 10 most downloaded movies on the file-sharing network. Granted, one of the new entries shot in straight at number one.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol made its debut on the po... |
19 March 2012
11:40 GMT |
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It seems that pirates are happy watching pretty much the same movies they watched in the previous week, as there are only two new entries in last week's top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent.
The Awakening, coming in straight at number two, a ghost story, is one of the new titles on the list, with the Osc... |
12 March 2012
06:37 GMT |
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Last week, The Pirate Bay made the big switch to magnet links, using them exclusively, except for torrents that had very few seeders, less than 10. There were several reasons for the move, one was to make the site less vulnerable to a legal attack.
The second was to cut down on bandwidth, which also links into the ... |
9 March 2012
17:01 GMT |
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It doesn't seem like the Oscar's make much of an impression with the average pirate. In the week following the Academy Awards, none of the big winners are in the top 10 most download movies over BitTorrent. There are a couple of Oscar winners in the top 10, but none of the big names, The Artist for example.... |
5 March 2012
15:01 GMT |
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One of the reasons why online piracy is so popular, one that is gleefully ignored by big media in their anti-piracy tirades, is because it's so easy. Go to your favorite BitTorrent site, search for the movie, album, episode, season that you want and with just a few steps it will be on your computer.
Getting the... |
5 March 2012
08:51 GMT |
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The day has come, The Pirate Bay has announced that it is finally dropping .torrent files and will start relying exclusively on magnet links, except for torrents with very few seeders.
The move was a long time coming and had been announced previously. It is already in effect, you'll notice that most torrents on... |
29 February 2012
03:55 GMT |
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In the week leading up to the Oscars, movie pirates weren't really interested in the titles nominated, rather, they preferred the same old comedies or action flicks they would have had in any other week.
In fact, in the entire top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent of last week, Hugo was the only Oscar win... |
27 February 2012
16:21 GMT |
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When it comes to torrent download, many users no longer see past uTorrent. However, there are other simple torrent managers out there, such as the recently updated qBittorrent. It is a multi-platforms solution developed in C++/Qt4.
The latest release is 2.9.3 and it brings to the table only bug fixes. It solves a pr... |
21 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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The development team behind the famous Transmission torrent downloader app have just announced the final and stable release of Transmission 2.50. Transmission 2.50 is a major upgrade to the popular BitTorrent client, bringing lots of improvements in various areas, as well as assorted bug fixes. Transmission 2.5 wi... |
21 February 2012
02:42 GMT |
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Four new movies, new to BitTorrent at least, have made it to the top 10 most downloaded titles of last week. Most of the others on the list have only recently been made available, illegally of course, over BitTorrent. Surprising or not, the top movie of last week is Tower Heist, holding the top spot from the previou... |
20 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Transmission fans using the popular torrent client on Mac OS X have a new version to download, which brings Lion-specific enhancements and OS requirements that don’t go below Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
For those who are reaping the benefits of Transmission on a Leopard machine (Mac OS X version 10.5), it&rs... |
16 February 2012
05:14 GMT |
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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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