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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Trackerchecker Lists Open Invite Only Torrent Sites
Torrent websites come in two shapes on the Internet. Public sites like The Piratebay can be accessed by anyone while private torrent sites can only be accessed by those with user accounts. What makes this difficulty is that most private torrent sites are closed for registration most of the time and only open up registrations [...]
Torrent2exe makes Bittorrent a tad easier
The Bittorrent protocol has gone a long way since the beginning and the applications have become increasingly easy to use for most users. They do come with a lot of settings though which can speed up the seeding and downloading and configure the client exactly the way the user wants it to be but usually [...]
