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The Pirate Bay Tracker Is Shutting Down

The BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology has been around for quite a few years; its huge popularity ensures that it will be around for at least as many. Anyway, the BitTorrent protocol has evolved over the years to the point where BitTorrent trackers, the sites which managed the initial communications between clients,...

17 November 2009
10:14 GMT

Internet Piracy Is What Makes Artists Popular

According to a new set of studies, it would appear that artists, musicians and movie stars, who are currently engaged in impressive legal battles with peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing websites, actually owe most of their popularity to these sites. Teenagers who share music and films with each other, even if they do so by i...

14 May 2009
09:30 GMT

Blueprints of Obama's Helicoper Leaked on P2P

The complete design specs of  the presidential helicopter, called "Marine One," have been discovered by a security company on a peer-to-peer file-sharing network. The files have been leaked from a  military contractor and were found to be hosted on a computer system located in Tehran. Employees from P2P in...

2 March 2009
07:58 GMT

Sweden Cracks Down on Illegal Internet File Sharers

Though Sweden has a population of only about 9 million people, a new statistic says that 700,000 citizens often used illegal peer-to-peer transfers in the first three months of 2008, amassing a total of more than 605,100 files. The report was prompted by recent allegations against the country, which was accused of be...

18 December 2008
06:51 GMT

New Microsoft System for Epic-Scale, High-Speed, Peer-to-Peer Games

Microsoft Research is cooking a new gaming system designed to support large-scale, high-speed, peer-to-peer interaction among participants, according to the company. Dubbed Donnybrook, the new technology is designed to break down the barriers associated with the volume of players capable of interacting simultaneously...

20 August 2008
07:41 GMT

Torrents Management with Firefox

BitTorrent is a protocol that allows the files sharing over the Internet, based on peer-to-peer technology. Many of the actual Internet resources are shared across many networks with the help of BitTorrent protocol. In order to be able to download or share files with other users, you will need a Bit Torrent client. ...

15 February 2008
11:29 GMT

TV and Internet Combined = Joost

The world of television viewing began its changing process due to the new opportunities presented by the world of computers. First you needed a TV card of some sort in order to tune in to the favorite frequency. All you needed was your monitor, a cable or antenna connection and the appropriate software to flip throug...

23 April 2007
07:05 GMT

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 con...

10 April 2007
10:11 GMT


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