With the popular Bittorrent indexing site The Pirate Bay preparing to go all in on magnet links on the site, users have asked themselves why the operators of the site go through those troubles in first place. The core reason for the site operators is bandwidth and to a lesser extend storage space. Replacing torrent [...]

Categories: P2p

What would you say about a service that monitors and records a huge percentage of worldwide torrent traffic and makes it available in a public database? The idea behind You Have Downloaded is fairly simple. The service monitors world wide torrent traffic and adds all information that it finds to a database. The developers of [...]

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Recent stats from the Sandvines Global internet Phenomenon report show that Netflix accounts for more web traffic in North America than bit torrents. While this is a good thing for Hollywood, it might backfire due to the ISPS recent trend to cap bandwidth in order to stop piracy. The report shows that Netflix accounts for [...]

Categories: P2p, The Web

Bittorrent has just released a first beta version of Bittorrent 8 for the Windows operating system. The beta client features a user interface redesign and personal content channels. The user interface sports a new color scheme and layout. The dominating colors are all shades of gray and purple, a mixture that is actually not as [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The experimental online service BurnBit can be used to create torrents out of any file that is hosted on the Internet. That’s interesting for webmasters who want to reduce the bandwidth usage of their server. BurnBit ensures that users who download the file get it delivered from the web server and at the same time [...]

Categories: Online Services, P2p

Bittorrent offers a very popular way of downloading files from the Internet, or even a local network. The protocol is however very dependent on the seeders, that is the users or servers the complete files are distributed from. Users can speed up downloading and seeding of files with so called seedboxes, which are dedicated servers [...]

Categories: Online Services

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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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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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