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
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Magnet links have been around for years and they've been in wide use for at least a couple. Yet The Pirate Bay's recent move to use magnet links exclusively, unless the torrents have very few seeders, below 10, has still caught a lot of people off-guard.The way magnet links work behind the scenes, is quite ... |
3 March 2012
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Qbittorrent, a multi-platform Bittorrent client developed in C++/Qt4 by Christophe Dumez that is designed to run on all major platforms, is now at version 2.9.5. Qbittorrent 2.9.5 only brings bug fixes, but they are important and users should upgrade as soon as possible in order to get the best experience.Highlights ... |
21 February 2012
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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
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The Pirate Bay is switching to a magnet link-exclusive service, meaning that it will no longer be hosting any .torrent file. This will happen by the end of the month. One benefit of this is that it will save the site a lot of bandwidth. In fact, the entire data on the site, i.e. the actual torrents, now take up ... |
9 February 2012
18:11 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
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Anyone following the BitTorrent scene has been noticing some interesting developments lately and three new technologies in particular have stood out. A couple of them, DHT, PEX, are new ways of finding peers (users with copies of the file you want to download) without relying on the old BitTorrent tracker system. Th... |
19 January 2010
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