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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 27th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Youtorrent 3 takes over where Youtorrent left

Update: Youtorrent 3 apparently stole the script from the website Nowtorrents, that’s at least what the search results at Youtorrent 3 are now claiming. This looks like a script protection put in place by the developers of the script.
I’m a bit puzzled by the sudden increase in torrent search engines that search on multiple [...]

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Categories: P2p

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 17th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Bitcomet Lite

Explaining Bittorrent to users with little technical understanding can be a time consuming task. You might be up for it if friends or family members are concerned but what if you distribute your content via Bittorrent to thousands of strangers who want to download the content but have no clue what Bittorrent is or does [...]

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Categories: P2p, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 14th, 2008
  • Comments: 9

Youtorrent Alternatives

Youtorrent is a website that provides a great search interface that provides access to several torrent website databases. The Youtorrent team decided to put the website up for sale though lately in a surprising move. The website which lately received up to 10 Million visitors per month was never monetized before. Still that’s not the [...]

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Categories: P2p, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 6th, 2008
  • Comments: 8

Imageshack introduces Torrent Downloads

Imageshack is widely known as a media hosting website offering free and subscription based accounts to upload and share images, videos and other files. In a somewhat surprising move they announced that they will be providing registered users with the option to download torrents from the Internet. Torrents can either be uploaded from the computer [...]

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Categories: Online Services, P2p, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 27th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Bad ISPs sorted by Country

Your P2P experience can change drastically depending on the Internet Service Provider that you use to connect to the Internet. Some providers use technical measures to throttle the Bittorrent traffic of their complete user base without making any efforts to distinguish between clients that use Bittorrent for legal and illegal purposes.
ISPs use a variety of [...]

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Categories: P2p, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 7th, 2008
  • Comments: 14

Best Torrent Search Engines

Torrent websites are much like Linux distributions, there are so many out there that it is easy to lose the track. Torrent search engines can be divided into two categories: Site search engines and meta search engines. Site search engines obviously only search the torrents that are hosted on one selected website while meta search engines crawl the databases of several torrent websites which often leads to better results.

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Categories: Online Services, P2p

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 3rd, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Private Encrypted File Sharing

I have been testing an application called Transporter P2P for the last few days which can be described as a elegant way to share files and chat with contacts using P2P connections. A main difference between Transporter P2P and Skype for instance is that the former is server independent which means more privacy and security. The setup on the other hand is a little bit complicated because of the serverless design.

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Categories: Operating Systems, P2p, Security, Windows

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