AT&T considering spying on its users
AT&T are currently evaluating if they should implement a system that would in effect monitor all traffic coming through their lines in an effort to stop sharing
Latest File Sharing News
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DOS Vulnerability in uTorrent and Bittorrent
A vulnerability in uTorrent and Bittorrent, which is using uTorrent's core, was discovered today that effects the BitTorrent 6.
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Stream Music contained in torrent files
If you do not want to download music from Bittorrent you now have an alternative that might suite you better.
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Wyzo an alternative to Bittorrent clients?
I think I heard about Wyzo the first time on Techcrunch and thought to myself at that time that no one would need a browser that would be able to download torre
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25 Gigatribe Premium Accounts for Ghacks Readers
Gigatribe is a software that creates a private Peer to Peer (P2P) network that offers a group of users, for example your friends and family, an easy way to shar
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Port Forwarding Tester
You might have encountered the term Port Forwarding when configuring bittorrent on your computer or analyzing slow or none existing traffic with bittorrent.
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EventID 4226: TCP/IP has reached the security limit
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista have both a TCP/IP connection limit that limits the half-open connections of the system.
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Radiohead, their album and Bittorrent
There is a lot of coverage going on at the moment on various sites that all report that the new Radiohead album In Rainbows which is exclusively available on a
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The Media Defender Story continues
Media Defender, the company that is spreading fake releases to p2p networks such as edonkey or bittorrent in order to spread chaos amongst file sharers, has bee
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Media Defender email leak
More than 6500 internal emails from anti-piracy company Mediadefender have been leaked on the Internet as one big Mailbox file that can be imported into email c
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The IT Crowd Anti-Piracy Ad
The IT Crowd is one of the best British comedy series ever produced.
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What can I do if Bittorrent gets throttled or blocked
It is important to know what to do if your Internet Service Provider decides to throttle or block certain ports that are used by applications that use the Bitto
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Check Sign up Availability of Private Torrent Sites
Many private torrent websites have a user limit in place which makes it impossible for new users to sign up unless an old user gets kicked out of the system, de
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Torrent Swapper
Torrent Swapper is a bittorrent client with some interesting features that make it stick out of the crowd of bittorrent clients.
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Anonymous Bittorrent with I2PSnark
I personally think that is is very important to use anonymizers whenever possible for most of the tasks on the Internet.
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Control uTorrent from a Website
I always thought that it would be nice to administrate uTorrent from work as well.
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NiN upload some of their songs to the Piratebay
NiN - Nine Inch Nails - added a new announcement on their website stating: "As a reward for stealing Year Zero, We've prepared the next batch of multitrack audi
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Running a Bittorrent client from a web server
Running a Bittorrent client from a web server is a good way for sites like Jamendo to seed the torrents that they offer on their sites.
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How Logistep catches file sharers
It is no secret that companies like Logistep are monitoring p2p networks to sue file sharers who are offering software from clients like Zuxxez, a German compan
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Private Torrent Sites are being infiltrated
I read an rather obvious article over at the TorrentFreak blog that was entitled "Piracy Investigators Infiltrate Private Torrent Sites" which confirmed that pi
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Search for and download mp3 with Clickster
Using p2p networks such as Emule or Bittorrent to download mp3 files is not as dangerous as the Music Industry tries to make it appear but there is still the ch
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Optimal Bittorent Settings
If you search the internet for tips to improve your download speeds with bittorrent clients such as Azureus and uTorrent you do find many tips that have one thi
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Securely share large files with Pando
Pando is a free online service that utilizes p2p technology to share large encrypted files by email and instant messenger.
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A list of Free and Legal Torrent Sites
Most people don't ever think that it is possible that free and legal torrent websites exist, they automatically assume that torrents equal illegality.
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Japanese P2P Trojan deletes Files
A new kind of Trojan was discovered recently which targets only Japanese file-sharers.
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Alternatives to uTorrent
There has been a lot of controversy about the recent acquisition of uTorrent by Bram Cohen, the creator of the Bittorent protocol.
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uTorrent 1.6.1 update fixes remote exploit
I'm so glad that I made the change from bitcomet to uTorrent some time ago because uTorrent is by far the most efficient bittorrent client that I could get my f
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Block IP addresses with Peer Guardian
Why would you need another program to block IP addresses if you already have a firewall ? A good question that can be answered easily.
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Fake Torrent Finder
Fake torrents are spread into the system by organizations for two reasons.
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Bittorrent client Bitthief spies on users
Bitthief, as the name already implies, is a bittorrent client that leeches from the community without giving something back to it.
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Migrate from Bitcomet to uTorrent
I finally decided to give uTorrent another try and switch from my favorite client Bitcomet to it.
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Tired of fake torrents? Block the source
We all knew and heard about the common method to upload fake torrents into the torrent system to punish downloaders of copyrighted media files.
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Share Files with HTTP File Server
You have some friends or business partners that you want to share data with but have no website with enough space and don't want to use p2p as well ? One simple
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And so the Pirates win the day
It began with the ban of the Russian website allofmp3 by the internet provider Perspektiv.
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BitComet 0.80 has been released
While downloading the latest version of the bittorrent client BitComet it came to my mind that I never wrote an article about this excellent client here at ghac
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Azureus 2.5 is out
A new version of the popular bittorrent client Azureus has been released yesterday to the public.
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My first experience with Relakks
I signed up with Relakks yesterday and was satisfied with this clean and easy process.
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uTorrent 1.6 final released
Funny.
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Speed up your torrent downloads
I´am not using bittorrent that often anymore but it is still a great way of transfering large files.
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Useful Azureus / Vuze Plugins
One of the great features of Azureus is its plugin capability which is widely used by developers.
