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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 20th, 2009
  • Comments: 28

Desktop Torrents Search Engine Torrent Fetcher

Users looking for torrents usually go to a website like Mininova or The Piratebay that index torrents. An alternative to this is a desktop torrents search engine like Torrent Fetcher is available for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Torrent Fetcher comes with a comfortable interface to perform the search for Bittorrent files from the local [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 27th, 2009
  • Comments: 20

uTorrent Error: Access is Denied Windows 7

I switched to Windows 7 earlier today and have started to install most of the computer programs that I work regularly with. One of the programs was the Bittorrent client uTorrent which caused a strange problem. After configuring the new port forwarding rules it would start downloading and seeding the data as usual but would [...]

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Categories: software, troubleshooting

  • 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

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