The Pirate Bay Asked to Pay $15M for Pirated Movies
	The battle between The Pirate Bay and MPAA continues with a new dispute: this time, the Motion Pictures Association of America demands damages of no less than $15.4 million due to the fact that the BitTorrent website published pirated copies of several of its movies and allowed Internet users to download them. According to ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 02:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TorrentSpy Fined $110 Millions for Copyright Infringement
	The battle against BitTorrent websites suspected of copyright infringement and distribution of pirated material reached another milestone yesterday when the movie studios, represented by the MPAA, won the lawsuit against TorrentSpy. The legal dispute was started a long time ago when, just like many other BitTorrent services on the web, TorrentSpy was sued for copyright infringement, MPAA making serious efforts to shut down its se ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 02:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

IsoHunt: “No, We Do Not Infringe Copyright!”
	The fight against BitTorrent websites which are accused of copyright infringement continues with a new duel, this time between IsoHunt and MPAA(Motion Picture Association of America). IsoHunt was quite reticent in the last few months, probably due to the fact that all people concentrated on The Pirate Bay and on its efforts to improve its image. In a post on the official website, IsoHunt replies to the MPAA accusations that it ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Avast Flags uTorrent as Trojan
	Avast Antivirus and uTorrent have only a few things in common: they are extremely popular among their segments of users even if one of them is an antivirus solution while the other is a BitTorrent client. Moreover, both of them are free, which obviously raises their popularity among the users looking for such software packages. Although it's well known the fact that uTorrent is 100 percent clean, due to an unexpected bug, Av ... [read more >>]
	29 April 2008, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

QNAP Mixes NAS With Bit-Torrent for Unorthodox High-Definition
	QNAP systems unveiled a new generation of network-attached storage devices that come with an embedded distribution of Linux and a BitTorrent client for facile data fetching over the net. The company's new models, the TS-109 Pro II and TS-209 Pro II feature a Marvell 500MHz CPU and 256MB of DDRII memory, as well as a high-speed BitTorrent engine. Targeted at power users, small-office and corporate environments, the new upd ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 04:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pirate Bay Policeman “Not Hired During the Investigation”
	The short story so far: Warner Bros. and The Pirate Bay are the plaintiff and the defendant of a copyright lawsuit in which the BitTorrent website is accused of providing access to pirated material. Nothing new until now because we've seen lots of similar cases when BitTorrent websites were sued for infringing copyright. The only difference is that one of the investigators who were responsible for the case gave another turn ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 02:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Adult Movie Producer Threatens BitTorrent Users With Physical Violence
	It's well known the fact that file-sharing and especially websites or applications that enhance the distribution of pirated content, mostly affect bands and music/movie companies because this is what people use to download from the web. Because of that, copyright holders and media companies around the world filed complaints and sent users to judge in a desperate move to stop piracy or just reduce the consequences of this phe ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 06:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Key Witness Hired by Pirate Bay's Lawsuit Rival
	The Pirate Bay is again brought in the spotlights, but this time to what seems to be one of the most important glitches of the lawsuit versus the copyright holders: Jim Keyzer, the chief police investigator who was responsible for the investigation of the case, was recently hired by Warner Bros, one of the companies involved in the lawsuit. Obviously, this raises concerns over the fairness of the trial. According to a statemen ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 08:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

uTorrent Is the Most Popular BitTorrent Client
	The peer-to-peer file sharing industry is quite important these days as ISPs, copyright holders and users are continuously talking about it. While consumers simply love P2P file sharing, copyright holders has strongly criticized it because it is rumored that the largest amount of pirated content is distributed by this method. Some ISPs encountered difficulties due to users' exaggerated appetite for P2P downloads and, even if ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 10:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rapper Stands Back In The Pirate Bay vs. IFPI Lawsuit
	The dispute between The Pirate Bay and IFPI, an organization that fights for the copyright of several artists, tends to reach the first page of every newspaper around the world as every new day comes with hot and extremely important information. Following TPB's announcement that the website will demand compensation from the copyright organization, Max Peezay, a Swedish artist who was involved in the legal dispute started by ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pirate Bay Seeking for Compensation from Copyright Holders?!
	The Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent website which has been longly criticized for the content published on its page, prepares to release a complaint in order to demand for compensations from IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), an organization supposed to defend music artists' copyrights. To be more specific, TPB asks for compensations because IFPI ordered a Danish ISP, namely Tele2, to restrict the access ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 04:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TorrentSpy Shut Down, The Pirate Bay Moves Servers in Egypt
	After TorrentSpy, one of the most popular BitTorrent websites on the Internet, got shut down, another similar webpage makes a major move due to tough copyright laws. The Pirate Bay today announced that it decided to move its servers in Sinai, Egypt, as a result of new copyright legislation promoted in Sweden. According to a blog post on Pirate Bay, one of the administrators of the website moved to Sinai and will remain there as l ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TorrentSpy Permanently Shut Down!
	The dispute between the MPAA and TorrentSpy, a very popular BitTorrent website, has begun a long time ago after TorrentSpy was accused of promoting and enhancing illegal downloads to users in the entire world. Today, it may look like the folks at MPAA have won the battle with their rivals as TorrentSpy announced the permanent shutdown, a decision imposed by the administrators of the service and not by the judge’s ruling, as the T ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Comcast’s BitTorrent ‘Managing’ Found a Workaround
	Last May, Robb Topolski, an independent researcher, found out that Comcast, a big American Internet Service Provider, was chopping down BitTorrent’s traffic by quickly killing off any files being uploaded. The means they tricked everybody was that they sent a fake reset flag to break the Peer –to-Peer connection. BitTorrent thought it through and proposed on Friday that four of its most prominent developers start working on a ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 12:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Harvard University Site Hacked, Content Available for Download
	The web site of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University was attacked and went offline yesterday. The purpose of it all, the guy behind the attack says that he wanted to demonstrate the insecurity of the university’s server and, I dare add, the recklessness of those in charge of it. You’ll find out why in a second. The download, available on the BitTorrent file-sharing network, has a stuffed description a ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Private MySpace Photos Available for Download with BitTorrent
	Last week, there was a security risk for all the MySpace users that had their profiles set to "Private" because somebody found a way to view their photos without having to be in the friend list. Several YouTube videos on how to do that were quickly uploaded and the photo downloads soon took wings. A 17 GB file containing almost half a million of these photos has recently been found available for download with BitTorr ... [read more >>]
	25 January 2008, 17:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

uTorrent Must Be Updated ASAP!
	uTorrent, one of the most popular BitTorrent download clients available on the web, must be updated as soon as possible as a new vulnerability has been discovered in the application. SecurityFocus today reported that certain releases of both BitTorrent and uTorrent include a "peers windows remote denial of service vulnerability." According to the report, uTorrent 1.7.5, 1.6.1, 1.6 and BitTorrent 6.0 are all affected ... [read more >>]
	17 January 2008, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BitTorrent Website Officially Dead
	The fight against the BitTorrent services, which have been accused for distributing or for supporting the distribution of pirated content, made a new victim. Demonoid, the BitTorrent service that was first closed in November, is still unavailable and it seems that a resurrection is not yet possible. In case you missed the news, Demonoid was first closed on November 9th, after many similar websites had been shut down due to an imp ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 09:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yet Another BitTorrent Website Shut Down
	The war against the BitTorrent websites continues with Fred Goldman, the father of Ronald Goldman, as the main character. Fred Goldman, the copyright holder for O.J. Simpson's book "If I Did It" sued The Pirate Bay, for publishing the book on the Internet. This move caused a loss of about $150,000, the complaint reads according to AP. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claiming that the Swe ... [read more >>]
	03 December 2007, 10:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Users Addicted To Games And Movies Downloads
	Teacher: "Tell me, Jonathan, what do you like to do when you're connected to the web?" Student:"Well, I visit websites, I chat with my friends through Yahoo Messenger, I check my email and I download games and movies." Teacher: "Games and movies? How do you manage to download such large files?" Student: "It's simple, Teach! Just use a P2P file sharing application!" This is how a c ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 09:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

File Hosting - A BitTorrent Replacement?
	OK, I think we all agree that BitTorrent is an excellent way to download files as it offers stunning speed and almost 100 percent stability. However, the users are always looking for better technology, no matter how good and popular a product is. Following the recent reports concerning limitations and restrictions applied for the BitTorrent downloads, the users started looking for alternative solutions that could allow them to sh ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 08:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BitTorrent Upset Because of ISP Restriction
	BitTorrent is probably the most popular file sharing technology nowadays and this thing seems to bother some ISPs that are likely to do anything possible to limit the BitTorrent use. For instance, it was reported that Comcast limited the BitTorrent downloads because they required too much bandwidth which obviously affected the browsing experience of other consumers who are using the web for other purposes. As expected, this move ... [read more >>]
	22 November 2007, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The BitTorrent Download – Friend And Foe (At the Same Time)
	The BitTorrent downloads are very popular nowadays because all the users interested in this way of saving files from the web can take movies, games and music in no time. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that all the content available through BitTorrent are legal and the users are allowed to download it with no risk. It’s well known the fact that numerous BitTorrent websites were shut down due to pirated content published on its ... [read more >>]
	15 November 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ISP Sued For Banning BitTorrent Downloads
	Jon Hart, a Comcast customer living in California, filed a lawsuit against his ISP, accusing it of blocking the BitTorrent downloads, an action which infringes the contract and the computer fraud laws, Wired reported today. The plaintiff said that he chose Comcast’s services because he wanted to use the peer-to-peer file sharing applications which seem to be limited by the ISP. Moreover, Mr. Hart claims that Comcast’s "Download at Cra ... [read more >>]
	15 November 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Demonoid Shut Down. This Time It's Serious!
	Demonoid is one of the most popular BitTorrent websites on the Internet but the authorities always tried to close it, accusing it of distribution of illegal material. The Register reported today that Demonoid went offline and this time it might be a serious matter. It appears that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) blocked the service after it made legal pressure over the company which hosts the Demonoid servers. At the tim ... [read more >>]
	09 November 2007, 10:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Private BitTorrent Website Shut Down
	The British and the Dutch authorities worked together to discover and find the suspects who used OiNK to distribute pirated music on the web. OiNK is a registration based website which enables the members to distribute files between them using the BitTorrent technology. In case you don't know how it works, you must know that anyone who downloaded the files becomes the server, allowing other consumers to take the files as wel ... [read more >>]
	23 October 2007, 08:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ISP Delaying BitTorrent Downloads?
	Following the last week's reports that Comcast, the US second largest ISP, blocks the access to BitTorrent downloads and other file sharing application, the company's representatives decided to go out and clarify the issue. According to the New York Times, a written statement signed by Comcast states that the ISP has never restricted the access to BitTorrent or other peer-to-peer technologies and will never do such a th ... [read more >>]
	23 October 2007, 07:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BitTorrent Seeking to Reduce the Amount of Pirated Content
	It's a well-known fact that consumers who are looking to distribute pirated content on the web are usually attracted by BitTorrent because it offers high download and upload speeds and reliable connections. Because of that, the amount of the pirated content distributed through BitTorrent grew up a lot so the parent company was urged to take attitude in order to reduce it. Today, BitTorrent officially rolled out its Delivery ... [read more >>]
	10 October 2007, 04:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

BitTorrent Represents the Internet
	BitTorrent is still the most popular Internet protocol and especially in Germany where it owns an impressive percentage of users. According to Ipoque, the peer-to-peer network traffic represents 30 percent of the total Internet traffic recorded every day and 70 percent of the night traffic. BitTorrent is the most popular protocol with 53.13 percent while eDonkey comes on the second place with 43.09 percent. The research conducted ... [read more >>]
	03 September 2007, 08:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Opera Browser and BitTorrent Downloads: Impossible!
	As you know, the famous Opera browser supports BitTorrents downloads because it includes support for .torrent files. But have you ever used this special function of the browser? If the answer is yes, you should really read this article. If the answer is no, you should also read it in order to know what's expecting you if you're thinking to abandon your stand-alone BitTorrent client. First of all, it works quite slow and ... [read more >>]
	20 July 2007, 09:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Optimize Windows Vista for BitTorrent
	Are you a hard-core peer-to-peer user? Then you are already aware of the limitations that Windows XP features when it comes to incomplete TCP connections. What you might not know is the fact that those restrictions have transitioned into Windows Vista. The maximum level of the simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts per second in Windows Vista is associated with the editions of the operating system. The Windo ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2007, 10:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

uTorrent under Ubuntu in 3 Easy Steps
	These days, BitTorrent is the most popular P2P (peer-to-peer) file distribution protocol. Whether you want to share some files or you just want to get your hands on the latest Linux distributions, then you must use a BitTorrent client. There are many BitTorrent clients for Linux, starting with the old and classical ... [read more >>]
	09 March 2007, 09:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia