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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

The Piratebay Might Disappear But Their Torrents Stay

If you are one of the Piratebay users who fear that the popular torrent website is going downhill after their acquirement a while ago you might appreciate what one Piratebay user did. The anonymous user dumped all Piratebay torrents and created one big 21.3 Gigabyte torrent file containing all Piratebay torrents up to the moment [...]

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Categories: P2p

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 7

How To Make uTorrent Portable

Using a portable version of uTorrent can be beneficial or necessary in several situations. It is for example easier to put a portable version of the Bittorrent client on a removable device so that it can be used on different computer systems without having to worry about settings and paths. Another reason could be to [...]

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Categories: P2p, Tutorials Basic, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

uTorrent 2.0 Beta Released

uTorrent is one of the most popular Bittorrent clients. It is small, lightweight and offers a good performance out of the box. The currently active branches of uTorrent is version 1.8x which is receiving regular updates from the developers. The first uTorrent 2.0 Beta hit the forum a few days ago. This version is currently [...]

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Categories: P2p

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 17th, 2009
  • Comments: 14

The Piratebay To Introduce Paid Subscriptions

The recent sale of the popular torrent hosting website The Piratebay to Swedish company Global Gaming Factory was a surprise to the userbase of the website. Many feared that this change of ownership would spell doom for the website. It was not clear back then what the new owners were planning and operations turned back [...]

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Categories: P2p

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

The Piratebay Sold To Swedish Software Company

We had to check the date on the story that was posted on Techcrunch this morning which basically stated that Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X bought The Piratebay for 60 million Swedish crowns. It is rare that websites like The Piratebay get bought off, they usually cease to exist either by legal pressure [...]

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Categories: P2p

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 23rd, 2009
  • Comments: 16

Pirate Bay Trial Judge Biased?

News portals and sites on the Internet have reported in length about the trial against the founders of the online Torrent portal and tracker The Pirate Bay. Several of the charges brought forth against the founders had to be dropped during the trial. It did come as a surprise to many that the Pirate Bay [...]

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Categories: P2p, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

uTorrent Port Checker Online

Port forwarding is not something that needs to be configured on most computer systems. It basically describes the concept of forwarding connections to a specific local computer system. Usually a computer router, firewall or other hardware device that is managing or controlling traffic is involved in the process and needs to be configured to forward [...]

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Categories: P2p, The Web

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